England 19     Wales 26

Was it real? Did we imagine it?

The look of disbelief on the faces of the Welsh players at the end said it all as they tried to take in the spectacular nature of their achievement. Twenty years of pain and torture on Twickenham's old cabbage patch was consigned to history in the space of 15 crazy minutes that yielded 20 unanswered points to the Red Dragonhood. They had stormed the ramparts of Fortress Twickenham in a manner inconceivable only moments before when England led 19-6 approaching the hour mark.

Welsh fans used to making the journey to south-west London could not have guessed at what was to come. Over the last decade they had seen their team concede nearly 300 points at an average of 42 per game and it looked that way again as England dominated proceedings. Crucially, in the five minutes before the interval, Wales kept their deficit to 10 points with some magnificent defence But a James Hook penalty got Wales going again, Gavin Henson side-stepped his way past tacklers on a mazy run and another Hook penalty brought the visitors within range.

Belief surged through their ranks, and suddenly it was England who looked vulnerable, an impression reinforced when Mike Tindall was stretchered off. When Jonny Wilkinson starts losing the plot, you know you're in business. The celebrated fly-half's awful wild pass to the newly-arrived debutant Danny Cipriani was the cue for Wales to score two tries in a three-minute spell that may have changed not just the course of this match, but the championship itself.