England need lashings of spirit shown by Mike Brown in the coming days

Home fans can toast a win but this Rugby World Cup dogfight with Fiji threatened at times to give Stuart Lancaster an early hangoverEight minutes from full time Mike Brown was on his hands and knees – an odd way to celebrate a try, and his second of the match too, to put England 15 points up and out of sight. Too sore to smile, too spent to move, Brown stayed down even as his team-mates tried to haul him up to his feet and into their arms. In the end they turned their backs on him and walked back towards their own half, 14 battered men. The scene summed up this battle of a match, brutal, messy…

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