He won’t be at his usual post when England and Ireland take the field at Twickenham this Saturday – and that will hurt Stephen Jones, rugby correspondent of The Sunday Times until he relinquished the job last month. The paper’s tribute to him then ran across four and a half pages: British prime ministers leaving office have been afforded less coverage. There was also a lavish retirement reception, but for Jones there has been sorrow in the parting after 42 years. “It’s bloody painful,” he says. “I suppose you didn’t know how bloody much you were enjoying it, until it…

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