The National's Sport cover for the Saturday, September 19 issue, featuring England as they eventually handled Fiji in a 35-11 win to open the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Geoffrey Riddle, covering the match from Twickenham, writes the slow-moving affair offered little to inspire but nonetheless was the result England wanted:
“The coaches and video analysts apart, neither England nor Fiji will want to revisit this opening Pool A exchange that was won fairly comfortably 35-11 by the hosts only through greater discipline and cooler heads.
“England secured the all-important bonus point via a late Billy Vunipola try for what has been labelled as the “Pool of Death”.”
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