Freddie Steward says England's heroic victory over Argentina in their World Cup opener was inspired by a verbal
'rocket' from defence coach Kevin Sinfield after the recent humbling defeat to Fiji. Steve Borthwick's men suffered a first-ever loss to Fiji in late August, going down 30-22 in what was arguably the side's lowest ebb, but they rebounded a fortnight later to defeat Argentina 27-10 despite playing virtually the whole game with 14 men following Tom Curry's early red card.
'You don't want to see a guy like that, who puts his heart and soul into us in his work with his defence, feel let down.'Kev is big on covering each other's backs. That's his big thing. He wants a defensive unit that are going to work incredibly hard for each other and, when it goes wrong, cover up for each other.
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