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|August 28, 2023
World Cup hopes look grim
MAYBE it is all some elaborate ploy and England are hiding their Rugby World Cup cards up their sleeves.
Could their historic 30-22 home loss to Fiji on Saturday - on the face of it a total calamity - be a giant rope-a-dope trick on their opening group opponents Argentina?
Is plodding Steve Borthwick - the head coach who has presided over five defeats in his last six matches in charge - in reality the Great Mysterio, conjurer supreme? Don't hold your breath.
England depart for France on Thursday in a shocking state of disrepair and at serious risk of failing to make the knockout stage at a World Cup for only the second time. And this despite the fact they are in the weakest group.
This story is from the August 28, 2023 edition of Daily Star.
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