It is a horrible match for England – so horrible, it conjures images of Argentina’s visit to Twickenham in 2006, which left Andy Robinson’s team up to their necks in the brown stuff and sent the coach hurtling down the black run towards P45 territory. There were mitigating circumstances – the Pumas were far better than the paying public had assumed; Robinson had been betrayed by the money-grabbers who lumbered him with an unwanted fixture with the All Blacks six days before the one game he could not afford to lose – but who cared? England were not supposed to lose at home to a bunch of South Americans, and that was that.

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