MELBOURNE: England coach Clive Woodward expressed a blunt but undeniable truth after 40 games and three weeks of World Cup rugby produced the quarter-final line-up any independent observer would have predicted before the tournament began.
“The phoney war is over,” Woodward said after the Cup co-favourites had routed Uruguay 111-13 on Sunday.
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