RUGBY UNION: WORLD CUP FINAL BOK & A HARD PLACE
Eddie’s men are marmalised as battered Ford admits: We were just not good enough
was worse than could have been imagined tries in three finals, through wingers as England arrived late after being caught Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe. in traffic. They lost star prop Kyle Sinckler England had known what was coming in the third minute after a freak collision but knowing and dealing with the sort of GEORGE FO FORD limped away with Maro Itoje’s shoulder as the pair uplift in physical brutality brought by the from Engl England’s World Cup tackled the same opponent. Boks are two different things.
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Opportunity
Fly-half Ford said: “You get to a final and you’re not guaranteed anything. All it is is an opportunity.
“We wanted to finish it off but we were nowhere near good enough to do that.”
The Springboks became the first team to win the World Cup after losing a pool game and in so doing scored their first