The build-up, the noise, the fury and the banality that precedes every Wales v England game has already begun. It was ever thus. Though misty-eyed nostalgia can sometimes obscure the truth of this fixture when you look back. Dai Sport guest columnist Stephen Bale – former rugby correspondent at The Independent and The Express – reflects on the famous 1999 fixture of exactly 20 years ago . . . and remembers plenty you may have forgotten. After two decades, I remember it as if it were yesterday. Not Wales beating England 32-31 at a home from home that was otherwise not that homely, not the Scott Gibbs try nor the Neil Jenkins conversion that deprived England of a Grand Slam. No, it is – work done for the day – a memory of leaning over the outside parapet that used to be behind the old Wembley press box and staring down on the decamping Welsh masses with my friend Chris Hewett of The Independent and suggesting to him: “It’s all a class thing you see, Chris.”