Danny Care has unfinished business with the World Cup. In 2011, the Harlequins scrum half paid for his parents to fly to New Zealand, only to suffer a broken foot in a warm-up game against Wales in Cardiff and miss the tournament. His parents still travelled, though. “They had a brilliant trip,” Care recalls, somewhat ruefully. “I was at home on the sofa with crutches.”
Care made the squad again in 2015 and this time stayed fit but he had been demoted from first choice to third choice the previous autumn and featured only once in England home’s World Cup, against Uruguay in Manchester after the team had been eliminated.
That was a bitter pill to swallow and it led to Care falling out for
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