The under-strength Reds had travelled to Lithuania without four key players - Jacob Mingorance, Paul Wanless, Chris Holloway and goalkeeper Duncan Roberts.
But Wanless has now been "archived": the report no longer sits on the Treasury website but in the national archives of the Gordon Brown years.
When I sat face to face with Derek Wanless in 2002, what impressed me was the clarity of thinking about the long-term issues of health service productivity and demand.
Big Lottery Fund chief executive Peter Wanless said today's society owed a huge debt of gratitude to the men and women who served across the world during World War II.
The Kings Fund has commissioned Sir Derek Wanless to carry out a review of social care needs for the elderly to evaluate the likely costs over the next twenty years.
Mr Brown said he was waiting for a report by former banker Derek Wanless, which would lay out how demographic changes and rising expectations will add to health costs in the coming years.
University of Miami geology professor Harold Wanless, who wasn't involved in the survey, said he was at a Miami Beach meeting on Thursday with business and political leaders on how to try to keep from losing their "hugely expensive" land.
Indeed, the report is seen by some as a sort of mini-manifesto on transport for Mr Brown, serving the same function that the Wanless and Stern reviews did to win support for health spending and measures to tackle climate change.
An unofficial audit was carried out in 2007 by Sir Derek Wanless, who had led a review into the health service's long-term financing needs that underpinned the decision in 2002 to carry on spending at a record rate for a further five years.
Wanless warned, basically, that if you are going to spend more, you need to spend it wisely and upfront so that the benign impacts of productivity filter through into every future year (key to this, remember, was the introduction of a national IT infrastructure for the NHS, which turned out to be a disaster and has failed).
That is, there would be a positive feedback effect from health reforms and efficiencies - above all at the demand level by addressing ill health - and a negative one from failing to do so. (If anybody can calculate what 12.5% would be in today's money, then we know the difference between the Wanless "worst case" and what Mr Lansley warns about today).
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