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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 31, 2015
FULL-TIME: NEW ZEALAND 34-17 AUSTRALIA New Zealand secured a second straight World Cup with a thrilling win over Australia at Twickenham. They raced into a 16-3 half-time lead but had to stave off a second-half fight-back from the Wallabies as the score narrowed to 21-17. But a Dan Carter drop goal and a penalty shortly afterwards kept the Australians seven points behind, before Beauden Barrett’s...
Published: October 29, 2015
The Rugby World Cup 2015 final needs of an injection of entertainment. The finals in 2011 and 2007 gave us only two tries from 160 minutes of World Cup final rugby, as the sides tried not to lose rather than go out to win. In 2007, England, having gone back to their fundamentals after a thrashing by the Springboks, were hardly going to come out with an all-court game against the same opponents in...
Published: October 28, 2015
The last men standing will battle for the biggest prize in rugby on Saturday. New Zealand and Australia meet at Twickenham in the World Cup final, with both looking for a third title and the All Blacks bidding to become the first back-to-back world champions. The cut and thrust of the knockout stages has been enthralling; the best ever, many have said. All of which makes those less nerve-shredding...
Published: October 25, 2015
“Advance Australia Fair.” They will face New Zealand next weekend in the Rugby World Cup final after a 29-15 win over Argentina. The Wallabies were ahead as early as the first minute when Rob Simmons gleefully got his mitts on a misplaced pass from Nicolas Sanchez and romped home. And Michael Cheika’s men never relinquished that lead, a hat-trick from Adam Ashley-Cooper ensuring a...
Published: October 25, 2015
FULL-TIME: AUSTRALIA 29-15 ARGENTINA Australia will play New Zealand in the 2015 World Cup final after a 29-15 win over Argentina. Adam Ashley-Cooper became only the second man to score a hat-trick at this stage of the tournament, and it was his third that hammered the final nail in the Pumas’ coffin in the last 10 minutes. Having lost their captain Agustin Creevy and inspirational wing Juan...
Published: October 25, 2015
New Zealand lie in wait for the winners of today’s second World Cup semi-final. In rugby terms it seems only yesterday a clash in the World Cup between Australia and Argentina would have been a real David and Goliath affair, worthy of a billing equal to England playing Georgia or South Africa playing Japa..scratch that last one. The truth is it’s not a shock to see the Pumas making up...
Published: October 23, 2015
On Thursday the Telegraph published its list of the top 50 most powerful people in rugby. It’s the kind of list that can stretch clubhouse debates into the wee hours and still end up with as many different orders of rugby’s big names as there are people sitting around the table. The great players and coaches dominate the top 20 before we begin to see some of the money men and the...
Published: October 22, 2015
These are sobering times for England’s players. Many of them have already donned their club colours while the tournament plays on without them. Meanwhile, the review of their performances in white is under way. Newspaper columns are piling up by the day as to how it should conclude, as well as whether or not the panel consists of the right people at all. Sam Peters, writing for the Daily Mail,...
Published: October 21, 2015
Let’s forget for a moment the instinctive human error that has elevated Craig Joubert into the company of Edward Longshanks. Let’s forget, too, the fact he was also accused of some of the worst refereeing ever seen that denied France the 2011 World Cup. And let’s try to forget the sprint to get out of Dodge on Sunday once he ended the Rugby World Cup 2015 quarter-final between...
Published: October 19, 2015
Weekends of rugby don’t come more drama-filled than that. The 2015 World Cup quarter-finals compacted into four games just about every human emotion you can think of. Irish heartbreak, Welsh pride, Scottish despair, French embarrassment, unconfined South American joy, South African doggedness and no small amount of Antipodean relief were thrown into a heady mixture of one of the most memorable...