Graeme Cattermole, Chairman of the RFU’s Management Board is also bursar of Durston House School, Ealing, and in gratitude for all their support when he is away on rugby business, he took the Rugby World Cup along to show the boys.

“I wanted to thank the governors and the school for allowing me so much time away over the past three years, but particularly in the last six or seven months,” he said. The surprise arrival came at the end of an assembly covering the World Cup success and the pupils were “over the moon” to be photographed with the trophy.