“Neither band was on their best form with the singles they were putting out,” The Charlatans’ frontman, Tim Burgess, recalled. “Country House almost seems like a novelty song when you look back at some of the heights Blur have scaled – and Roll With It is kind of a flatpack Oasis song.”

“I remember the band were slightly reluctant to have Country House as a single in the first place,” Andy Ross added. “They were also reluctant about the video with Keith Allen and Page 3 girls. But irrespective of how good the song was, it sounded like a No.1 single. It’s like having a big gun. I’m not saying it’s pretty or nice, but it’s effective. It’s certainly not the best song they ever did, or probably not the best song on the album, but it served a purpose. The person who scored the goals isn’t necessarily the best player on the pitch.”

Outwardly, both parties approached the confrontation with confidence and swagger, but the outcome wasn’t a done deal by any means.

“Everybody thought Oasis would win,” Mike Smith recalled. “We felt we could win, but that wasn’t the perception out there.” Things were “tense” within the Blur camp right until the results come in on Sunday evening.

Having stoked the flames of the Blur vs Oasis media frenzy, the NME readied two different covers “because we didn’t know who was going to win”, the magazine’s then editor, Steve Sutherland, added. “We had a Blur one and an Oasis one, and we just waited to see which one would go. It did feel like people were going into record stores and buying a record to try and beat another record, which is amazing.”

In the end, Blur triumphed. Despite claims that Oasis’ sales were hit by faulty bar codes, Country House shifted 270,000 copies while Roll With It sold 220,000. Rewarded with their first No.1 single, Blur were duly crowned champions of the “Battle Of Britpop” on 26 August 1995, but it was a pyrrhic victory for some.

“I would have liked to have had a No.1 quietly, but there’s probably no such thing as that,” Graham Coxon said in a September 1995 interview.

“I wanted our band to be No.1 just because No.1 is a special thing, but it’s become not special. I wish the releases had been staggered, then Oasis would have got to No.1 as well. We don’t need this fake war, this preposterous chart war.”

Ultimately, though, you could argue that both bands emerged victorious. In the aftermath of the “Battle Of Britpop”, both Blur’s The Great Escape and Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory albums became massive sellers, and Britpop grew into a cultural phenomenon. Some might say that it continued to build until Oasis headlined Knebworth in 1996, but for many it’s defining moment was the Blur vs Oasis clash of August 1995.

“With hindsight, Country House was the obvious track to go for,” Blur producer Stephen Street reflected in 2015. “I actually think it’s a very well-crafted song. I always thought the “Blow me out/I am so sad/I don’t know why” at the end is a great bit of songwriting. And it seemed to cram into three-and-a-half minutes all the best bits of what Blur are about.”