Eddie Jones’ England rugby team have vowed to lift the mood of the country and make Wales pay for a claim of English ‘arrogance’.
Today’s Six Nations clash takes place against a backdrop of coronavirus and floods - and Wales legend Mike Phillips letting rip at England’s Twickenham crowd. “There is something that winds you up about it,” Phillips wrote in his column. “There always seems to be a certain degree of arrogance about the crowd there. “They have the money behind them, we're a smaller nation, they look down their noses at us and you just use that as motivation.” Victory for England would keep alive their hopes of a third title in five years and Jamie George called on those supporters to roar them home.
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