NO ONE LIKES US, WE DON'T CARE!

Vunipola happy to soak up the boos

- ALEX SPINK

BILLY VUNIPOLA heads into the World Cup quarter-finals admitting no one likes England and they don't care.

Steve Borthwick's team face a Fiji side carrying the hopes not only of the Pacific Islands but of every neutral.

England were booed in their opener against Argentina and heard even their own fans chant "allez les Bleus" in support of opponents Samoa last weekend.

After training yesterday in Aix, 25 miles north of Marseille where Sunday's game will be played, it was put to Vunipola that Fiji are everyone's second team and England will be seen as the bad; guys.

"I would not say Fiji is their 'second favourite team, I would say England is their 'first least favourite," he said. "We are happy to take that mantle."

Historically that is a cross England have to bear when up against nations from what was once the British Empire.