Cipriani’s Gloucester meet Farrell’s Saracens on Sunday but Ford is the man the man standing between the 30-year-old and a recall by Eddie Jones
A montage on the wall of the Gloucester team room at their Hartpury training base is centred around the acronym B.R.A.V.E. As the club’s fly-half Danny Cipriani ponders his latest omission from an England squad before a confrontation on Sunday at Allianz Park with Saracens and Owen Farrell, one of the players preferred to him, he can reflect on what the letter B stands for: belong.
The 30-year-old has spent most of his international career as an outside-half on the outside. He has started only one match for England since 2008, the final Test against South Africa this summer when he helped secure victory with a typically sublime moment of skill, an act that a number of former internationals assumed would cement his place in the squad. But Cipriani will not be at England’s training camp in Bristol this coming week.
Written by Paul Rees
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/22/danny-cipriani-owen-farrell-england-rival-george-ford under the title “Danny Cipriani faces Owen Farrell but his real England rival is George Ford”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
