Remember, you read it here first. For all those who cannot wait four years for another clash of the hemispheres, there is one coming to Twickenham in the near future. Or there should be. This time it is the winners of the Heineken Cup v the Super 14 title-holders: Wasps against the Bulls to decide the best club side in the world.

The date yet is not named yet but the current planning is for late January, just before the Six Nations. We want it, they want it and work is under way to make it happen. Rugby union is following rugby league and football in having a world club championship and, if it is half as good as the game that launched league's version, it will be a corker.

In 1987 Wigan met Manly at Central Park and it was a night to remember - better even than all those trips to Wembley. More than 37,000 crammed into a stadium which was meant to hold about 30,000. Any vantage point was taken and I remember arriving at Central Park 90 minutes before kick-off to find 25,000 were already there.

Anyone with a flicker of interest in Wigan wanted to see how their team got on against the best of the southern hemisphere - we beat them 8-2 - and Wasps v the Bulls should sort out a few arguments in rugby union, especially as the two countries involved not only contested the World Cup final but also produced all the finalists in the Heineken and the Super 14.

Eddie Jones, the Australian coach working with the Boks, latched on to this in the week leading up to the World Cup final. He put the strength of England down to the dominance of Leicester and Wasps in Europe last season, while the Bulls and the Sharks supplied 13 of the Boks' match-day 22.

John Connolly, Jones's successor as Australia's head coach, said something similar but interestingly he rated the Heineken Cup as the better competition when it came to preparing for the World Cup. He should know because he has sampled both - not so long ago he was at Bath, before that he was at Queensland - and the relative strengths of the two competitions will be an interesting sub-text to what happens at Twickenham.

There should be some interesting World Cup match-ups. Simon Shaw will get another chance to go against Bakkies Botha and Paul Sackey should have another bite at Bryan Habana who, along with the Bulls scrum-half, Fourie du Preez, makes it into the team I have selected from the 20 sides in France.

My side starts with an Englishman, Andrew Sheridan, at loose-head with the Boks' captain, John Smit, hooking and the giant Argentinian Juan Martín Scelzo at tight-head. Shaw partnering Victor Matfield in the second row was an easy selection but the trio of loose forwards was fiendishly difficult.

Schalk Burger gets the nod at blind-side flanker even though he should have been sent to the sin-bin for killing the ball in the final: as I expected, whenever it was 50-50 Alain Rolland ruled against England. Finau Maka is at No8 and his Tongan captain, Nili Latu, could easily have been my No7 had Thierry Dusautoir not put in one of the performances of the tournament in Cardiff when France beat the All Blacks in the game of the tournament. The Toulouse player made 30 tackles - a fantastic performance by any standards.

Du Preez is at half-back alongside Juan Martin Hernández with another Argentinian, Felipe Contepomi, at inside-centre. It could have been a trio of Pumas with Gus Pichot in the No9 shirt but Du Preez was more consistent.

My fifth and sixth Springboks are Percy Montgomery at full-back and Habana on the left-wing. There is no argument there but there might be for the final two picks. I've gone for Fijians: Seru Rabeni at outside-centre and Vilimoni Delasau on the wing.

So, no All Blacks. Who would have thought that two months ago?