Before they know it, a pair of sacked England coaches will be back in Paris on World Cup business to oversee the second momentous collision of the tournament.
Ireland against South Africa at the Stade de France on September 23 takes Andy Farrell and Mike Catt back to where they were 16 years ago.
While neither will wish to waste a moment remembering the anniversary of that night against the same opponents, what happened makes it impossible to forget.
On the Richter scale of nightmarish English sporting misadventures, it still haunts those witnesses of a Red Rose persuasion, never mind the o...