Gallows humour is not entirely appropriate in these parts, given the French preference for the guillotine, but the England coach Brian Ashton could be forgiven a little laughter in the darkness on the eve of tonight’s World Cup meeting with the most potent collection of Springboks gathered together since the 1999 tournament. “I woke up this morning, saw the blue sky above and thought to myself: there’s bound to be a bloody great piano up there somewhere, waiting to fall on us.” Yes, the holders of the Webb Ellis Trophy are in that sort of mood.

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