If England, not the Lions, were facing South Africa this summer, George Ford illustrated for Leicester yesterday why he would be Eddie Jones’s first choice. The England fly half produced a masterful managerial display for his hour on the field as Leicester eclipsed Harlequins for large parts of this interesting and entertaining league fixture. Marcus Smith has been racking up points and man-of-the-match awards with regularity as the fly half has inspired his team’s rise into play-off contention. The Harlequin again inspired whereas the Tiger managed the match. There’s no bigger bag of tricks in the Premiership than the one

Source: The Times May 16, 2021 17:03 UTC