EDDIE TO OUTFOX ITALIANS

BEN TE’O is under orders to go ‘fox hunting’ on England’s payback mission to Italy.

The Lions centre (above) starts his first England Test since Italy outsmarted the Six Nations champions for much of his full debut at Twickenham last year.

Eddie Jones was furious with the Azzurri’s ‘ruckless’ strategy which the visitors dubbed ‘The Fox’.

The Australian labelled it “anti-rugby” and threatened to walk away from the sport if it was repeated.

At Stadio Olimpico tomorrow Jones has demanded his players are “brutal and absolutely ruthless” in exacting revenge.

Central to his thinking is that cross-code import Te’o will take no prisoners in the Italian midfield. Jones said: “We want to run through them, create space, smash them at the clean-out, get on the front foot. So when they get the ball they see this white line of jerseys coming at them and there’s nowhere to go. I’ve always wanted to play Ben at 13. We played him against Italy last year but The

Fox got him. The Fox got him big time.

“So he wants to go fox-hunting. We want to see him carry the ball and hit the line hard. If there are no foxes out there, he might have a chance.” ITALY: M Minozzi; T Benvenuti, T Boni, T Castello, M Bellini; T Allan, M Violi; A Lovotti, L Ghiraldini, S Ferrari, A Zanni, D Budd, S Negri, R Giammarioli, S Parisse (capt). ENGLAND: M Brown; A Watson, B Te’o, O Farrell, J May; G Ford, B Youngs; M Vunipola, D Hartley (capt), D Cole, J Launchbury, M Itoje, C Lawes, C Robshaw, S Simmonds.