'Coping with pressure the key for England'

Martin Johnson, who has experienced the highs and lows of the Rugby World Cup as a player and coach, believes that coping with the pressure of being the host nation holds the key to England's prospects at the 2015 event.



"The demands on the players will be huge," he said.

"The 1999 World Cup was like that and this will be 16 years later.

In 1999 it became too big in our heads.

If you make that mistake, that's the World Cup final gone.

I've always felt you have to play everything down.



"It's just a game of rugby and that's all it is really.

Even in a World Cup final it's 15 ag…