Nick Abendanon states exceptional case in Clermont’s rout of Northampton

• Clermont Auvergne 37-5 Northampton• Abendanon hoping to get England call before World Cup• Read Dan Lucas’s minute-by-minute reportExceptional circumstances. Stuart Lancaster must be sick of them. Just as he starts to get his head around the idea of considering Steffon Armitage for his World Cup squad (just this once, mind, because it’s you and it’s the World Cup), along comes Nick Abendanon putting in yet another performance simply reeking of the exceptional. If Toby Flood were now to guide Toulouse to the French title, these exceptional circumstances would start to feel pretty run of the m…