Well, now we know why Martin Johnson walked away last week (as if we couldn't guess). This above tidbit - which was uttered by one English player after losing to France - is just one of the choice details from the three reports about to published that forensically examine England's utterly mediocre New Zealand holiday September last. Some of the juicier details are outlined below.
From the Guardian:
Slagged off for training? I thought it was Johnson's managerial style that had them looking so ragged. Ireland went out at the same stage of the tournament, but they've escaped the blood-letting - proof again the old nugget 'it's better to burn out than to fade away'. If I were Conor O'Shea, I'd too prefer to be staring into the face of George Hook than that dressing room on Six Nations weekends.
