England will be lucky to get out of their group the way things are going

I remember watching England’s abject demolition by South Africa in the pool stage of the 2007 World Cup. After the 36-point whitewash, I wrote that England would play Australia and then be on the plane home. I, and to be fair almost everyone else, was wrong and England came close to pulling off the mother of all resurrections by running the same Springboks side mightily close in the final, losing 15-6.