Martin Johnson’s choice of a second-row forward to shoulder the burden of the England captaincy may have had a whiff of cliché about it, given that the World Cup-winning captain spent his entire rugby career looking at life from the darkest recesses of the scrum, but the new man – Steve Borthwick of Bath – is studiously avoiding the hackneyed old “one game at a time” line. Borthwick intends to take it two games at a time; not a radical departure, admittedly, but different enough to be going on with.

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