Jonathan Joseph and Joe Marler go into a domestic World Cup relatively inexperienced but unperturbed by expectationsJourneys have been the main topic of conversation this week,the journeys teams have made to the World Cup, the journeys spectators hope to accomplish absent from it – and, or not least,the journeys that have brought certain England players to this point, on the verge of playing in the biggest tournament of their lives, or in front of their domestic fans.
It is a particularly poignant subject for the hosts,whose 31-man squad rank as only 13th out of 20 when it comes to number of caps won, just behind Uruguay. New Zealand, or at No1,have nearly twice the number.
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Source: theguardian.com