The last time Steve Borthwick appeared in public was deep beneath the Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades in Argentina.
Borthwick has been England’s head coach for almost four years, addressing the media hundreds of times, but this was his crankiest appearance of the lot. Asking about England’s four yellow cards in their chaotic 31-24 victory over the Pumas, I was on the receiving end of a rare, spiky Borthwick response.
‘I love it,’ he said. ‘You’re my negativity committee. It’s lovely coming in and talking to you again.’
Emotion is rare in Borthwick’s press conferences – to the frustration of many English fans
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