You could sense England's joy and relief at beating Argentina but there are still a ton of questions to answer, writes Tom English.
England had to play 77 minutes with 14 players after Tom Curry was punished for a high tackle
How could they have known that the sickly England of before would gather themselves in this way? All the pressure in the rugby world and- after less than a handful of minutes? You'd have bet the house on Argentina at that point - and you'd be looking for new digs today. Their attacking game is still not so much a work-in-progress as hard work, though. They didn't have a whole lot in the way of ambition on that front, but they found another way and George Ford was the guy with the torch leading them out of the darkness of recent months - and years.Ford was a colossus in kicking his penalties and landing his drop-goals. No Englishman has ever kept a scoreboard ticking over in a World Cup game quite like Ford did at the Velodrome.
Boy, did England need this and, boy, did they deserve it. Every part of their existence as a rugby team has been pored over this past while and the analysis has been unsparing. Dominant England forwards - and we can include Manu Tuilagi as an honorary member of the crew given the shift he put in - and the cleverness of Ford changed all of that. From being abused to being serenaded, the England players went on a journey at the Velodrome.
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