Martin Johnson has been criticised in the latest leaked reports
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The Daily Telegraph's Mick Cleary looks at how the RFU can recover from the revelations leaked to the press.
"What a sorry state of affairs. What a shoddy, slipshod and increasingly divided set-up. What a tainted game, at odds with itself, on and off the field. No-one comes out of it untarnished.
Not Martin Johnson, nor his coaching staff (with the notable exception of scrum coach, Graham Rowntree), nor the RFU back-up, nor Rob Andrew, nor the players themselves. It's a wonder England got as far as they did. Thanks goodness Romania put out a weakened team.
Even the recently-formulated guardians of the game, the Professional Game Board, have had their credibility compromised by mass disclosure of what were intended to be confidential documents.
The PGB stood for a modern ways, slicker, more streamlined and less porous than that lot at the union, accepting, of course, that the RFU is part of the PGB. Instead, it's the same old song.
No wonder Johnson walked away from it all. He went before he surely would have been pushed or obliged to go. The revelations about England's chaotic, rancorous World Cup camp would only have made Johnson's position untenable."
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