Rory Best: We can’t let England bully us again

Rory Best leads Ireland once more unto the Twickenham breach today confident his team has the smarts if not the bulk to prove the home Six Nations defeat to England was an aberration rather than a bad omen for the upcoming World Cup.

Badly beaten by a hugely physical England side in February as the glories of 2018 were consigned to distant memory, Best, 37 last week, admitted his side was bullied.