RWC 2015: Rugby's chance to win the hearts of a nation
Too Big to Miss. Amid the blizzard of slogans, hashtags and hoary mottos swirling around the eighth Rugby World Cup, this one was an exhortation to spectators to snap up the 2.4 million tickets at prices ranging from reasonable to second-mortgage material. But there is another, unintended meaning, that we can aim directly at Chris Robshaw and his England team. As hosts, playing your opening pool fixture against Fiji at Twickenham this week under Friday night lights and all but one of your other matches on the same precious, familiar turf, you will never have a bigger chance to be champions. Do you have what it takes to emulate the glory, glory boys of 2003 – Jonny, ‘Johnno’, Jason Robinson et al?