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Martin Johnson quits as boss of England rugby union team

11:05am Wednesday 16th November 2011 in Rugby Photograph of the Author By Dan Kerins, Digital Editor

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MARTIN Johnson has today resigned his position as head of the England national rugby side.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is expected to release a statement shortly.

Johnson, who won the World Cup as a player in 2003, guided the team to a quarter final place in last month's tournament in New Zealand.

However, the campaign was beset by problems and controversy off the pitch.

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SouthamptonLegend says...
11:44am Wed 16 Nov 11

I thought it was Capello! **** it!

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BikerNick says...
12:04pm Wed 16 Nov 11

Yeh, should have said 'England Rugby coach' etc, shame though, he was let down by the players.

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St Retford says...
12:52pm Wed 16 Nov 11

SouthamptonLegend wrote:
I thought it was Capello! **** it!
You were meant to.

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St Retford says...
12:54pm Wed 16 Nov 11

To be fair, the England team was an absolute shower. If the football team had behaved in that way then the entire squad would now be swinging from the lamp posts in Trafalgar Square.

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Condor Man says...
1:04pm Wed 16 Nov 11

Rugby will never progress as a sport until the players and the management stop treating it as an extension of a public school summer tour. You don't see this sort of thing in Rugby League, probably because it's a professional game run by professionals,rather than enthusiastic amatures.

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lowe esteem says...
1:57pm Wed 16 Nov 11

St Retford wrote:
To be fair, the England team was an absolute shower. If the football team had behaved in that way then the entire squad would now be swinging from the lamp posts in Trafalgar Square.
But most of them do!
Your post contains more irony than Guinness, watercress and a Chinese laundry put together!

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