England Discipline Issues: World Cup 2023

Posted By The Dead Ball Area on Sep 12, 2023 in General Analysis | 0 comments

England’s discipline under Steve Borthwick has been well documented.  It’s been long accepted that over the last 9 month, a high penalty count and 4 red cards in 10 games showed England were on a downward spiral. The Truth is somewhere in the middle. The cards can’t be ignored, and clearly, there is some failure to keep within the high tackle laws by England. But we also need to focus on the broader disciplinary...