Former England skipper Lewis Moody has revealed that he regrets not controlling his players during this year's World Cup campaign.

England's tournament was dogged by various stories of bad behaviour off the field which made headlines both in New Zealand and at home.

Moody retired from international rugby after the tournament, and has now revealed that he was worried about the team's behaviour from the start.

"I had been growing concerned about the attitude in the camp, which had become apparent pretty much from the moment we arrived in Auckland," Moody says in his book, Mad Dog: An Englishman, serialised in the Mail on Sunday.

"We were on the other side of the world, a lot of the guys were young, well-known, wealthy and believed they were invincible. I remember thinking that some were not quite in the right mind-set."

"If I could change one thing, knowing some of the characters we had in that squad, it would be to have banned them from going out at all."

England crashed out of the tournament in the quarter-finals with a 19-12 defeat to France.