England fall just short, but blockbuster final awaits
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Charlie and Charles reflect on an agonising weekend for England, who were knocked out of the Rugby World Cup after losing their semi-final by a single point to defending champions South Africa.
The guys look at where the game was lost, and if England could have done more to build a lead when they were on top.
The fallout from the match has been dominated by an allegation made by Tom Curry against Bongi Mbonambi after the England flanker accused the South African hooker of a racial slur. World Rugby are investigating the situation.
We also take a look at New Zealand's comfortable win on Friday night over Argentina and ask if the All Blacks are now favourites to win a fourth World Cup on Saturday.
And ahead of the third-place play-off on Friday night, we ask if the fixture is pointless.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Telegraph for every podcast. What a weekend in Paris. |
| 0:19.3 | We had a sort of a warm-up dish on |
| 0:21.3 | Friday night with Argentina, not quite meeting New Zealand standard and suffering a heavy |
| 0:26.6 | loss. And then what an astonishing game on Saturday night in the rain in Paris. It was |
| 0:31.6 | really quite something to the whole. I'm Ben Coles and I'm joined as ever by Charlie Morgan. Hi Charlie. |
| 0:38.6 | Colesie. And also by Charlie Morgan. Hi Charlie. Colesie. |
| 0:44.2 | And also by Charles Richardson. Hi Charles. Good morning everybody. |
| 0:51.9 | For the first time in the tournament we were all three of us were in the same city and we got to watch the same games. |
| 0:56.1 | I mean I think the less said about New Zealand in Argentina, the better, |
| 0:57.5 | but we'll obviously have to recap it. |
| 1:01.7 | But in terms of Saturday night, Charlie, if I come to you first, |
| 1:05.0 | how have you sort of reflected on England's performance in that game? |
| 1:09.3 | I think similarly to how we were all feeling at the time that it felt like a, |
| 1:19.8 | felt like such an assured, intelligent, tough, super, super tough performance for 65 minutes, didn't it? |
| 1:26.7 | And I think at the time as well, in the moment you were thinking 156, that's a really, really good lead, |
| 1:29.6 | but you want to be sort of more than more than 10 points ahead because of trying a penalty. You're sort of within range |
| 1:35.7 | and you're within, you're almost at the mercy of how much South Africa are going to seize |
| 1:41.6 | control of a game with the forwards that they've got on their bench. And unfortunately for England, it just fell away, didn't it? But it was stirring. It was really, |
| 1:48.9 | I think the reaction from a lot of people has been that it's a performance to sort of |
| 1:54.5 | reassure and restore pride. And I think that's totally fair. I think a semi-final exit on the face of |
| 2:02.6 | it given England's draw isn't particularly special it's almost par but I think that performance |
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