Allianz Stadium has served up plenty of pulsating Test matches this autumn, but once again England found themselves on the wrong side of the result as they lost to South Africa. There is no disgrace in that,

The diagnosis of England’s malaise should not require a torturous debrief. They are, to be blunt, mentally weak, so terrified of their own shadows in the closing stages of the toughest Tests that they cannot even conjure inspiration against 14 men.