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England’s freedom fighters on the march for British and Irish Lions honours

Paul Rees looks back at the winners and losers in this year's Six Nations and who will make it to be a 2025 Lion

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An enduring image of England’s Six Nations campaign, which started slowly and finished in a blizzard of tries, was 20-year old Henry Pollock coming on as a replacement in Cardiff with more than half-an-hour to go and talking animatedly to the experienced heads who surrounded him.
When Eddie Jones initially said he did not see Maro Itoje as captaincy potential, his context was an academy system which he felt developed players as if they were army cadets, told what to do ...

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