England’s Stuart Lancaster: at no time with this team has spirit been broken | Robert Kitson

His wounded side face Australia in a vital Rugby World Cup game but the coach says ‘we’ve been in this position before, come out the other side and won’Somewhere deep inside the psyche of English rugby there must be a masochistic streak. The harder they are pushed up against a wall, certainly in the Stuart Lancaster era, the better they tend to respond. The body language at their base in Bagshot is appreciably different to last week’s; England are angry and cannot wait to take it out on someone.Prior to the game against Wales all the talk was of the size of the occasion and keeping calm. This …