It was the TikTok video seen around the world – and even by Steve Borthwick. On 15 November, just a short while after England had beaten the All Blacks at Twickenham, Tommy Freeman logged onto social media and posted a short clip of he, Fin Smith, Henry Pollock and Freddie Steward – three Saints and a Tiger breaking down East Midlands divides – bopping, weaving and dancing in a choreographed routine of which Bob Fosse might have been proud.
Captioned “post game feels”, their jig, and the many, many outtakes, had been recorded on the Wednesday prior to the New Zealand clash, but the timing of its posting was opportune. At last count, it has 21.9m views, spawning plenty of imitations. A great many of those to have watched the clip will have far more familiarity with it than, say, Pollock’s setting up of Tom Roebuck’s match-sealing score.
