England’s Six Nations squad: Eddie Butler picks his possible 32

Anthony Watson and Mike Brown can give Eddie Jones’s side some attacking spark while could Dylan Hartley be the leader to restore some bite and menace among the forwards?Back in the rugby days BC (before Carling), it was very much part of the fun for the non-English to take a large pointed stick to anything wearing a white shirt and red rose, and keep on poking without fear of a reprisal more vengeful than a gently turned other cheek. There was a frisson to this taunting of the English, an acceptance that the general rule didn’t always hold true – as in the games against Wales in 1980 and 1987…

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