What is the wider purpose for Borthwick’s semi-finalists when so many supporters feel the team is still not speaking to them?
rave lads. What lads. Bring them home in garlands and rosettes, these English heroes on a foreign field. All is forgiven, Steve Borthwick. One in the eye for the critics and the doubters. Sport is cruel, fine margins, and all that. This weekend England will, with its dignity salvaged, with its future restored and with its public engrossed. With everything, in fact, except the thing they came for., this last point felt like the most minor of inconveniences.
Barnes will have his compatriots Karl Dickson and Matthew Carley as his assistant referees, with Tom Foley named as the television match official. "It is the first time in World Cup history that all the officials have been appointed from one union and it speaks volumes for the quality of English officials and this group who work so brilliantly alongside one another."
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