Paul Rees, of the Guardian, looks at Martin Johnson's troubled reign.
"Hugo Porta, the former Argentina outside-half, lamented earlier this month that rugby union had become a game of muscle rather than skill. His remarks went almost unnoticed here, even though he made them in London, a symptom perhaps of why Martin Johnson this week decided that he had had enough of being England's team manager.
Johnson had spent most of his 40 months in charge of England fending off questions which were not concerned about the playing of rugby (most of those which were game-related tended to be about when he was going to shake up his coaching team or dump Shontayne Hape from his midfield). Even when England were playing well, against Australia last November and at the start of this year's Six Nations, he kept being asked about Chris Ashton's swallow dive and whether the wing would be dropped for disobeying an instruction to touch down in a more conventional way."
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