The RFU cannot simply wash its hands of England’s World Cup disaster | Owen Gibson

In the wake of the Twickenham capitulation, Ian Ritchie has fixed the spotlight firmly on Stuart Lancaster and his team but surely the RFU’s chief executive needs to ask questions of himself?The rankings released by World Rugby on Monday showed Argentina had leapfrogged England, pushing down the beleaguered and bedraggled hosts to eighth after their early departure from the World Cup.In 2012, when the Rugby Football Union began planning for the World Cup under the new chief executive Ian Ritchie, one of its myriad aims was for Stuart Lancaster’s England side to be among the top two in the worl…