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Four years, three words. “Close to invincible” was how Matt Dawson, a World Cup final winner with England in Australia a generation ago, described the men in white after the 2019 semi-final success against New Zealand in Yokohama. The scoreline was 19-7 but the All Blacks, who had not lost in the tournament that decade, were a distant second.
It was hard that evening not to imagine England dominatin...