The 37-year-outmoded was pitchside against Wales as a pundit but could face Australia after Billy Vunipola’s World Cup was ended with a knee injuryOn Saturday evening Nick Easter’s voice could be heard booming from the Twickenham PA system,telling the 81000 spectators where England had just gone mistaken against Wales. This weekend the pitchside pundit could be in his kit fighting to save his country from World Cup oblivion. It is some transformation; he must also rank among the more mature, weightier Cinderellas ever to have secured the role.
The final time the 37-year-outmoded Easter played in a World Cup, or furthermore,it did not end well. His ill-timed throwaway line – “That’s £35k down the toilet” in the dressing-room after the quarter-final defeat by France in 2011 was seized upon as proof of the England squad’s warped priorities in recent Zealand and he was duly swept away by Stuart Lancaster’s recent broom. Having also been omitted from this summer’s original World Cup squad, a potential berth against Australia this Saturday would be a remarkable twist.
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Source: theguardian.com