So it said in the paper today.

And if its in the papers, then it must be true.

My own top 5 moments of sporting theatre would read:

1. "They think its all over, it is now"
2. "And Wilkinson drops for World Cup glory"
3. "If anyone sees me get in a boat again, they have my permission to shoot me"
4. "And Ben Johnson got a brilliant start"
5. "Oh! Decker's down"

And now we have a new entry. I can't quite put it at No1. because, well, the game hadn't actually started, but it certainly slots in quite comfortably at No2

As the Telegraph said today:

"It was one of the great moments of sporting theatre: Ryan Jones and his Welsh team standing unmoveable in the face of the New Zealand haka on Saturday. In the BBC commentary box my colleague Brian Moore was moved to point out that anyone who advocates the banning of the procedure must be mad. He was right: there cannot have been a spine in the Millennium Stadium that was not tingling. And for the first half of the match, the Welsh played as if they had indeed got one over on their visitors. A pity, then, that having used up so much emotional energy in the pre-match fireworks, the Welsh were not able to sustain their play and lost."

Watching the replay again, the BBC had clearly been playing around with their sound levels to protect the nations Flat-Screens because it truly was a fingers-in-ears cacophany that built and built over a couple of minutes until the Kiwis blinked and the game could begin.

Heres what the BBC came up with

My little box brownie didn't really do it justice either - but I reckon it was closer to reality than the BBC!