Burgess suggested that Ford Snr wanted England to bomb the WC so that he could take the job and he did that through using Burgess as a pawn and exerting his own influence through George.
He does appear to have a massive chip on his shoulder that virtually nobody really thought he was an international class player.
History probably proved him right on this one....but I don't think Ford undermining him had anything to do with with the campaign.
all the little things add up though...Burgess isnt a fool and knows what its like to part of a winning team, in his opinion Ford and a number of players undermining the coaching staff was a big contributor to England getting kicked out at the group stages.
Burgess has an axe to grind though with union in general and didn't exactly cover himself in glory in his time here. He also gets brownies points with his League buddies for putting the knife in regards to Union. He definitely wanted to be the next big things and didn't appear to want to put the hard work in.
Remember him saying England had no world class players after the SA group game which even if it was true was very stupid.
I mean we can go back in the threads I know just about every Bath fan watched a lot of his games as they were regularly on BT Sport, it was generally agree upon he wasn't ready he could play center adequately but never look convincing. His runs at flanker showed potential that he could be genuinely be very good and considering the flanker issue in England at the time could of really staked out a claim in the post world cup years.
Feels like one for those players of the ethnic group to speak up on. It's not sung out disrespect but in celebration. However it's not my place to decide if it's okay or not.
