For the first time since 2007 England are into the last four and Saturday’s smackdown with New Zealand will be some collision.

West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.

A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997.

Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.