It was the only game I ever played for England when I knew after just 20 minutes that we had lost. It was also the game where one man was catapulted on to the world sporting stage. We are, of course, talking about the great, sadly late, Jonah Lomu. Saturday’s World Cup semi-final will not be a repeat of that 1995 game at Newlands in Cape Town, but it will bring back memories for anyone who played in or watched it.

In retrospect, England got many things wrong before and during that game and the thrashing we suffered was, at least in part, self-inflicted.

First amongst the errors was the break we had after the quarter-final, where we had knocked out Australia with a dramatic late dropped-goal from Rob Andrew. Nothing wrong with having a break, but Sun City was not the place to go.

It wasn’t that we messed about, it was that it had so many distractions we failed to concentrate properly on what was to come. We didn’t do this consciously but, in retrospect, it was a bad mistake.