Steve Borthwick’s men will take on the reigning world champions on Saturday.
Four years ago, in Japan, England were very much the semi-final underdogs against everyone’s favourites, three times winners New Zealand, who’d not lost a world cup game in 12 years.greatest ever performance, but that victory left them physically and emotionally spent, and they were well beaten by South Africa in the final.
15 of the South African squad here in France were involved in that final and many of the England team were too. The Springboks are rightly firm favourites, and it will take something special for the world number one ranked team and reigning world champions to be dethroned.If you’d have posed that question after they lost to Fiji at Twickenham for the first ever time, in one of many underwhelming warm-up games, the answer would have been emphatically “no”.
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