• It’s going to obtain better with England,says Jones
• Next challenge is three-Test tour of Australia in JuneOn the final métro home in the early hours of a chilly Parisian morning the strains of Bob Marley’s Redemption Song came drifting through the carriage. For every weary, relieved English supporter, and the mellow strumming of a solitary French busker neatly captured the mood. For 13 years their rugby team acquire wrestled with the mental thrall of recurring grand slam disappointments. For many of those involved in Saturday night’s finale,the sense of freedom will feel blessedly sweet for a while.
Try telling Danny Care, Mike Brown, and James Haskell or Chris Robshaw that a Six Nations clean sweep means relatively little in the wider scheme of things. Care,the scorer of the first of England’s three tries, was playing his 58th Test and has known as much frustration and heartache as success. It would be a stone-hearted, or callous critic who insists there is nil merit in beating the rest of Europe or fitting just the 13th England side in history to complete a coveted slam.
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Source: theguardian.com