The brigadier has been a Twickenham fixture for as long anyone can remember. He has a regular spot in the seats behind the press box. He has one of those voices that makes you duck your head every time he shouts out, it carries clean across the ground and sounds as if he is drowning in gravel.
After 25 years of coming here I have no idea if he is a brigadier, mind, or has a rank, or whether it is even the same person in every Test or just any one of a number of interchangeable Twickenham men from the home counties. On Saturday he began by shouting: “Bloody hit him” as Immanuel Feyi-Waboso went haring downfield after George’s Ford’s first kick from hand. This was followed with a full-throated “Yes” when Feyi-Waboso clattered into whichever Australian it was who caught it.
