But since they had almost nothing in common stylistically, the question remained: What exactly made music paradigmatically English?

It certainly had merit as a punkish shouter with its machine-gun-spatter underbeat.

However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.

[…] though I care not one straw for the personal puffs of which I myself am so often the subject […]