ITALY had been held up to such public ridicule before Twickenham last Sunday that not one of their detractors considered it remotely possible that they might just have something up their sleeve.
England would dispense the most severe ridicule by bouncing them from pillar to post.
Those of us who take no pleasure from seeing one team humiliating another witnessed something which restored our faith in the underdog’s capacity for outwitting a vastly superior opponent.
Their perfectly legitimate plan worked like a dream – no ruck for Italy equalled no roll for England.
Never can one...