MARK OF A CHAMPION

Regan backing Genge approach

- ALEX SPINK

WORLD CUP winner Mark Regan has backed Ellis Genge’s us-against-the-world stance – as it is mirrors the one he adopted to get to the 2007 final.

Steve Borthwick and his England team have circled the wagons ahead of Saturday’s semi-final against holders South Africa at Stade de France, with Genge (inset, during training yesterday) insisting “everyone” wants them to lose.

It’s a spiky move that has not won universal approval, with one national newspaper calling on them to ditch the siege mentality act.

Regan, the England hooker who lifted the trophy in 2003 and came within 80 minutes of doing so again four years later, takes a different view.