Henry Arundell gets double as London Irish cruise past crisis club Worcester
Sport | The Guardian
- London Irish 45-14 Worcester
- Financially stricken Warriors fight but Irish score seven tries
This was a desperate afternoon for the destitute Worcester, and every bit as emphatic as the scoreline suggests. It is tempting to say it will be a long season for the crisis-hit club but given the uncertainty swirling over their future, they cannot even be afforded that phrase with certainty. Second-half tries from Curtis Langdon and Jamie Shillcock at least ensured they did not head home pointless as well as penniless, but it was a sobering afternoon on which the Warriors found little refuge on the pitch.
There was no little endeavour, a predictably fast start but once Irish weathered the early storm they found holes in the Worcester defence all too easy to exploit, finishing with seven tries, including two for Henry Arundell, whose golden touch does not seem to have deserted him over the summer.
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