conquerors

England play Australia - ranked 10th in the world - next weekend, before a rematch with Rugby World Cup semi-final conquerors South Africa on 16 November.

Men who seize this opportunity are not conquered or conquerors.

In Mexico, they were apparently brought by the Spanish conquerors, but may also replicate pre-Hispanic traditions.

"Our name was the British Liberation Army, then we suddenly changed to the British Army of the Rhine. We weren't liberators anymore, we were conquerors."

England's fans responded with decibels and even the locals, initially unsure whether their cross-Channel rivals or last-eight conquerors were the best of a bad bunch, seemed to swing behind the white shirts.