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FEARLESS Matt Perry will shut out his Tongan nightmare and put his neck on the line again for England at Twickenham today.
All of England winced in horror as the Bath fullback was sent crashing to earth head-first by an X-rated tackle last Friday.
Clive Woodward, his coach, condemned the incident as "shocking", and captain Martin Johnson branded it "spectacularly bad".
Perry himself admits he might have broken his neck had the ball he had leapt high to catch not helped cushion his fall.
Yet five days after his dangerous plunge he returns to the scene of the crime as England's last line of defence against another South Sea island.
He lines up against Fiji insisting that he was shaken but not deterred by the experience and is both mentally and physically recovered.
"When you go for a high ball you have one thing in mind and that is to take it," he said. "I have always enjoyed that part of the game and there has never been a problem in the past.
"So I won't think about what happened against Tonga when Fiji stick the first ball up. I haven't lost my nerve.
"I try...