Ian Ritchie's 'unacceptable' comment on England's Six Nations failures was lost in translation

You had to be there, I suppose.

The question put to Ian Ritchie last Tuesday at Twickenham was: “Ian, England have been runners-up for four straight years.

Is that acceptable? Would you have expected a title by now?” To which Ritchie replied: “I think you would.

I don’t think that is acceptable at all.

If you go back through history, we should as a country have won more in terms of Grand Slams and championships.

Four years as runner-up is not acceptable and we are – I am trying to find a diplomatic way of putting it – not happy with how that came about, and we had opportunities, we…