When I woke up on Saturday it looked as if Springbok strongman Ox Nche had scrummed down my perimeter fence.

There were three large wood panels pirouetting in between the thorn trees on Lighthouse Road. Two of the cement support columns had been neatly snapped near the base. I would see similar prone and forlorn figures later that evening in the form of England’s replacement prop and lock. ..

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