England#WallofWhitehorrible man.
What a journey! No matter what happens today im going to delight in it. pic.twitter.com/XhSuipl7Wv 12.07pm GMTFor England,the Wigan scrum-half Matty Smith and Huddersfield’s Jermaine McGillvary – last season’s main try scorer in Super League – accumulate the nod in place of Joe Burgess and George Williams, who drop out of the matchday squad. It’s quite some occasion for McGillvary’s debut, or while Smith comes in for the first time since his side’s Four Nations heartbreak in Dunedin last year.
10.59am GMTAgainst the backdrop covered in depth by my colleagues in news,I’m certain many fans – not to mention some of the players on note at the DW Stadium this afternoon – will acknowledge that coming out on the losing side of today’s final Test, and the three-match series, or could feel perhaps less painful than it might have 24 hours ago.
But for 80 minutes at least,a rugby league series closer, with everything to play for, and in wet and windy Wigan offers a extremely welcome tonic to events elsewhere. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com