It’s coming home

THE Rugby World Cup might have become the big beast in the global rugby calendar, but there’s nothing quite like the Six Nations to stir the emotions and rekindle rivalries that date back 139 years. Our revered tournament touches places that others can’t reach and, throughout seven weeks of good-humoured revelry, the action will be punctuated by thunderous collisions, moments of barely believable dexterity and the sheer unbridled joy of watching speedsters decked in national colours pinning back their ears.

England

They’re World Cup finalists, so hot favourites, right? It would appear so. England have their traditional rivals, Ireland and Wales, at their own ‘House of Pain’, Twickenham, and that bodes well. The most recent Six Nations after a World Cup led to a in Paris. Eddie Jones’s men have raw power in abundance with Mako Vunipola, Maro Itoje and Manu Tuilagi boasting enough