George Ford: ‘You do things in a game that you’ve never thought about’

Despite being left on the bench for England’s recent defeat by Wales, the fly-half wants to focus on what makes him unique

The day we meet, George Ford is in the papers. It’s not what he did, but what he didn’t do. The previous weekend England lost against Wales in Cardiff. Owen Farrell – Ford’s friend, teammate and captain – had a poor sort of match by his own standards, especially in the final 20 minutes when England slipped from 13-9 up to 13-21 down. Ford watched it all unfold from the bench. It was the first time since Eddie Jones took over that Ford has been an unused substitute, and it happened in a match when England really needed him. “George Ford could have made all the difference,” Nick Evans wrote in this paper.

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