Rugby World Cup Top Tens: 9. World Cups

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports, Sports News, News, Rugby

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ok, there have only been 9 of them, but we’re going to rank them anyway! From New Zealand in 1987 through to Japan in 2019 via South Africa in 1995 and England in 2015 which is the best edition of the Rugby World Cup? How do we rate them? Matches? Venues? Crowds? Stars? Bryan Habana, Matt Dawson and Chris Jones decide.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
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0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sport stars.
0:14.3	Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'
0:18.5	mouths.
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0:28.8	dedicated sports fans across the UK.
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0:35.2	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:40.8	Rugby Union Daily, Wednesday morning, it is World Cup Final Week and now on the daily,
0:47.3	it's time for our final two episodes of the Rugby World Cup Top 10 series.
0:52.8	You can hear episode 10 shortly as we discuss the greatest World Cup icons, but with the
0:57.8	2023 World Cup winding down, this episode is all about the greatest rugby world cups.
1:04.8	There have been nine editions of the Men's Rugby World Cup before this one.
1:08.4	So how do Matt Dawson and Brian Habana rank them?
1:11.9	Find out now.
1:12.9	The Rugby World Cup Top 10s with Chris Jones, Brian Habana and Matt Dawson.
1:21.1	Okay.
1:22.1	Do we say, and there is naturally some elements of recency bias here because of the tournaments
1:28.4	we've all been to and covered in the fresher in our memory, but also it's fair, I think,
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