What an extraordinary weekend of rugby at the Stade de France. Unfortunately Europe’s best, the number one and two ranked teams in the game coming into this World Cup are no longer alive and kicking after two of the greatest games I’ve seen. Sadly, neither produced the result I so badly wanted.
England’s 2003 World Cup-winning captain Martin Johnson made a very salient point in a recent podcast reflecting on their journey towards winning the Webb Ellis Cup in Sydney twenty years ago. “You can’t win the World Cup until you’re in the final."
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