No one likes us and we don't care

ELLIS SHOT AT ENGLAND CRITICS

- Alex Spink 

ELLIS GENGE says everyone wants England to lose and that has him fired up to steer the country into the World Cup final.

Steve Borthwick's unlikely lads decamped for Paris yesterday in spiky mood after victory against Fiji earned them a semi-final against holders South Africa.

A tone set by the head coach, rounding on critics of his side after they became Europe's last team standing, was amplified by Genge on the way out of Marseille.

"I quite like the noise and having our backs up against the wall, with everyone wanting us to lose," said Genge. "That probably fuels me a bit. Others are probably better off blocking it out."

Pushed as to he believed whether really everybody wants England to lose, he replied: "That's what I said, yeah."