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19 March 1988
The day Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a Twickenham staple. At half time things were going wrong as England trailed and their captain, Nigel Melville, had been carried off with a broken leg. But a second half of 35 unanswered points gave England a 35-3 win, with Chris Oti scoring the first Five Nations hat-trick on the ground since 1924, all three tries in a 10 minute 43 second period. A group from the Benedictine school Douai started to sing a rugby club favourite - the gospel hymn Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - in honour of their new hero, the whole crowd joined in. Since then it was adopted as a regular song by the English team. Meanwhile, at Cardiff, Wales were pipped 10-9 by France and denied the Grand Slam.