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

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.

Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.

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