England manager Martin Johnson always knew it was going to be a lot more complicated than his playing days when he took the job, writes Matt Dickinson in The Times.
"If one casualty of a bruising first season as England team manager has been a little of the aura around Martin Johnson, the man himself is quite relaxed about that. As he squeezes his vast frame into a chair at RFU headquarters at Twickenham, Johnson seems at ease if the world now sees him as a man rather than “a myth”.
He is talking about his alter ego: Johno, the World Cup-winning captain, the superhero of the English game, the man who could subdue opponents with a menacing glare. It is part of him, a big part, but Johnson seems happier to leave that persona behind than some of those fans who have been yelling at him to sort out England's faltering players with a few choice words or by pinning them to the wall. By being Johno the indomitable, in other words."
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