LIST | 5 stories you didn't know about England's 2003 World Cup triumph

Here, the main players talk through some stories from the victory over Australia that you might not know:

Sir Clive Woodward: "The graciousness of Eddie Jones and his Australian team in defeat was something I had not seen before from him," revealed the then England boss. Eddie and I had been enjoying our normal banter in the build-up but for some reason I went straight to him on the final whistle.”

Will Greenwood: "My mate rang the bouncer at a nightclub called Cargo's, which was closing, and said he could get the team down and they would drink for a week, so they opened the top bar for us and that is where the main party took place."

Richard Hill: "My memory of that night was Mark Regan constantly opening up his shirt to check he was still wearing his medal and the other one was Lawrence Dallaglio playing the bongos with Prince Harry."

Jason Robinson: "It was very quiet for me. I was a bit more sensible. When I woke up the next morning, I saw a few of you of coming back."

Mike Catt: "My first thought was that I had to go back to play for my club the next weekend. Having just won a World Cup, you just wanted to go ‘party, party, party’ but it never really happened. We had to go back to the clubs and it was the clubs who had got us here so we owed them so much. By the following Wednesday we were back training with them."

Neil Back (flanker): “Martin Johnson used to turn around before we went out to the stadium to say a few final words to the players. This time when we were about to go out into that cauldron he turned around and we were expecting the same positive message. But he turned and looked at us and didn’t say a word. That was unusual, I remember thinking: ‘Is Johnno all right?’ A few days later he told me: ‘I looked into everyone’s eyes and knew we were ready. I didn’t have to say anything.'"

Lawrence Dallaglio (No 8): “The best bit about the 2003 World Cup as a team was the hour we had together in each other’s company in the changing room immediately after the final whistle. Because that England team took six years to create and six hours to break up. That England team was never going to be the same ever again after that moment. There were all sorts of emotions in that hour together, people laughing, crying… that to me was the highlight of the tournament itself. No distractions, no hangers-on, no one else, just there as a group.”