ENGLAND EXPECTS –JUST AS THEY DID WITH HICK

MARTIN JOHNSON

Jofra Archer qualifies for England this weekend, and if the advance publicity is anything to go by, his first appearance for his adopted country – scheduled for the Irish coastal town of Malahide on the first Friday in May – could well involve an entrance reminiscent of the 1950s comic book hero Gorgeous Gus.
The aristocratic Gus, aka the Earl of Boote, divided his time between sitting in the House of Lords and playing centre forward for Redburn Rovers, and before taking the field would hand his cloak and cane to his faithful butler Albert. Then, having shed...

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