Joe Marler had it right at half-time of England’s 38-18 win over Fiji on Saturday evening.

Having been comprehensively outmanoeuvred by Alan Carr in the final of TV’s Celebrity Traitors , Marler was on firmer ground with his rugby analysis, predicting in an on-pitch interview for the Twickenham crowd that Steve Borthwick would make a couple of changes and England – then leading just 14-13 – would be fine.

It was a ninth victory on the trot for England, their best sequence in eight years, although only one of those wins (France in February) has been against a fellow top-five-ranked country.

No 2-ranked New Zealand are next at Twickenham’s Round Table, fresh from beating Ireland in Chicago and Scotland at Murrayfield.

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