George Ford faces missing out on England’s entire autumn campaign due to the injury he sustained on Sale duty last weekend.

Sale are still waiting on results of a scan to discover the full extent of the fly-half’s layoff, but there are fears that Ford could be out of action for somewhere between six and eight weeks with a torn quad muscle. With England beginning the Autumn Nations Series against the All Blacks on 2 November, it would be a blow for the 31-year-old, who missed the summer tour of Japan and New Zealand to have surgery on a troublesome achilles tendon, having started each of England’s five matches during the Six Nations.

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