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Never would I ever thought a single person could shred my heart into a gazillion pieces, pieces that could never be put back together fully!To this very day, 5 years ago that’s exactly what happened....Jonah, you tore my world apart with your departure to the point I struggled to breathe 💔 ....I know you’d give anything to be here with your boys and I right now, as I would too...just one last anything 😢, everything you ever wanted for us and more, all that we were working for together!😢.....there’s not a moment that I don’t wish you were still here....

It takes a lot to leave rugby motormouth Keith Quinn speechless and just as much to put a smile on the face of Laurie Mains. Jonah Lomu achieved both with what remains the greatest individual performance the Rugby World Cup has seen. Lomu's barging run over the top of England fullback in the 1995 World Cup semifinal in Cape Town was so outrageous that classy Kiwi TV commentator Quinn was literally lost for words as the unbelievable unfolded in front of him. GETTY IMAGES All Blacks wing Jonah Lomu charges through the tackle of England fullback Mike Catt for one of...

  Former England winger saw up close Lomu's devastating impact in unforgettable 1995 RWC semi-finalWhen Jonah Lomu charged at you at full pelt, there often wasn’t much you could do to stop him – as England found out to our cost in that memorable semi-final in the 1995 World Cup.Lomu was the fiercest of opponents. His speed, once he got going, his sheer size and the length of his stride meant that he was a difficult man to bring down. A player who in that match swatted my brother Tony off “like a fly”, as one commentator put it, before...