THE WORLD'S AGAINST US

Siege mentality fuelling Genge's drive for glory

- ALEX SPINK

ELLIS GENGE "everyone" wants England to lose and that has him fired up to get his country into the World Cup final. 

Steve Borthwick's unlikely lads decamped for Paris yesterday in spiky mood after victory over Fiji earned them a semi-final against holders South Africa on Saturday night.

A tone set by the head coach, rounding on critics of his side after they became Europe's last team standing, was amplified by Genge on the way out of Marseille.

Asked whether the squad preferred to embrace the outside noise or draw from within, the Bristol prop said he thought it was probably half and half.