England's World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward has criticised the RFU over their handling of Martin Johnson's time in charge of the national team.

Johnson stepped down from his position of head coach on Wednesday following three and a half years in charge.

However, Woodward believes that the RFU should have given more support to their former captain.

"To put in a rookie manager like Martin and to put no-one alongside him, to let him run his own ship for three and a half years without any analysis is so, so wrong," Woodward told Sky Sports News.

"Who made these decisions? Martin had no coaching experience so it was a big risk. He rang me before he took the job and I advised him not to take it. I told him that he should earn his stripes at a club like Leicester, for example, earn his credibility.

"I don't see Martin as a big risk-taker but he took a risk. And the union did, too, and to negate that risk they should have put someone alongside him. For the union to leave him on his own was wrong. It left him horribly exposed. It's ended in tears and someone should be accountable. As for me, I have no wish to coach England again."

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