Heartbreak is over at last for honest Ben Foden

“It is going to cost him the biggest prize of all and he is going to be devastated with that. He will have to pick himself up.

“Dylan has worked hard on trying to get rid of that reputation and then he oversteps the boundary. Having previous is never going to put him in good stead when he does anything like that and he has to learn a hard lesson again.”

Foden, with 30 caps, starts against the South American Consur XV as the elder statesmen of a callow English team showing 13 changes from the 40-12 victory over the Barbarians.

He is one of five Northampton players that featured in the Premiership final who will start for England.

Rugby league convert Kyle Eastmond is one of several players making their first senior England starts, but Foden is confident he can keep pace with Lancaster’s young bucks.

“I am sort of the senior member of the team – I’ve got more caps than all the backs combined,” said Foden.

“There are a lot of exciting players here who are going to be hungry to do the same thing. We can all use each other’s energy to bounce off each other.

“We all have to slot into the way of England playing as well. But within that structure there will be licence to create and take chances.”

England: B Foden; J May, L Burrell, K Eastmond, D Strettle; S Myler, R Wigglesworth: J Marler, D Paice, H Thomas, C Lawes, K Myall, T Wood (capt), T Johnson, B Vunipola. Replacements: R Buchanan, A Corbisiero, P Doran Jones, D Attwood, M Kvesic, L Dickson, F Burns, J Joseph.

Kick-off: 7.30pm tomorrow.

England’s two Test matches against Argentina on June 8 and June 15 will be broadcast live on BBC 2, with both games kicking off at 8.10pm.

Article source: http://www.express.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/403847/Show-us-the-monster-Courtney-Lawes-says-England-coach

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Heartbreak is over at last for honest Ben Foden