Cueto does England disservice in defending a mountain of shocking conduct by his team
Writing in The Independent, James Lawton takes the England wing to task for asking the media to let go, when an analysis of a chain of mishaps and underperformance is bound to give a nod to cause and effect
"It could be that any day now the England team will come down from its parallel universe and get properly involved in this seventh World Cup of rugby. Maybe the French will do it too, in which case their quarter-final this Saturday might warrant something more cheery than a full-scale autopsy.
"In the meantime, we should maybe refrain from falling over ourselves with optimism. Not, certainly, if the comments of Mark Cueto are about anything more than a defensive reflex.
"The worry, though, is that Cueto, who has among his credentials the probability that he was unjustly denied potentially one of the most significant tries in the history of the English game, actually believed what he was saying when he asserted yesterday that the two most egregious of the many examples of unprofessionalism his squad have displayed over the last few weeks should really be seen as 'bonding experiences'."
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