Lewis Ludlam: ‘This time last year I was fighting for a club contract’ | Gerard Meagher

The Northampton flanker is a surprise World Cup inclusion but in many ways he exemplifies Eddie Jones’s England squadTwenty-four hours after Lewis Ludlam’s remarkable rise into England’s World Cup squad he posted two pictures on social media. In the first he is belting out the national anthem just before his senior Test debut last Sunday while in the second he is doing the same, four years earlier, at the Junior World Cup in Italy. As fate would have it, Ellis Genge is standing next to him in both and Ludlam accompanied the images with caption: “4 years apart. Aint nothing changed.”It resonate…