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Stuart Lancaster has been taking advice and soundings from all sorts of people - including Gary Neville - as he prepares to take charge of England in the Six Nations. But the one person who might have assisted him most has instead given "help" of a very different kind. It was an open secret that Sir Clive Woodward quite fancied going back to the RFU in the fall-out from a disastrous World Cup campaign. He didn't get the gig, and so he's chosen to have a sly dig at Lancaster instead. Sir Clive has suggested that former PE teacher Lancaster is "lucky" to have been put in charge, and that he "has a lot to prove" about his ability to do the job. It all smacks of sour grapes. The truth is that nobody gets put in charge of a national team without a bit of luck on the way. There would be...