Peter Jackson: Japan trigger off-the-scale tremor around the world

Ayumu Goramaru survived one Japanese earthquake four weeks before his international debut ten years ago and another four days afterwards. It taught him all about seismic shifts and the Richter Scale which measured the first at 6.6, the second at 5.8.

The one registered in Sussex-by-the-sea early on Saturday evening will be rocking around the world for weeks on end. The World Cup had been crying out for its Buster Douglas moment from day one almost 30 years ago and now, glory be, it has delivered a giant-killing of truly biblical proportion.

How wonderful that the boy who grew up in Fukuoka on an island dominated by Japan’s largest active volcano, Mount Aso, should have played the staggering lead role in rearranging the tectonic plates of the game on the shores of the English channel.