More than that it was 14-14 at the end of full time, each team scored in extra time to make it 17-17 there and there were 28 seconds left on the clock when Jonny scored.
I remember this because Australians at home in pubs etc started to celebrate an Australian win then Jonny scored in the last moments and everything turned to silence.
Thanks for reviewing this great moment in English sporting history. I recall it so well. My 50th Birthday 22November2003. What a game to watch and celebrate with. To top it all my wife had booked us to see the Australian Pink Floyd that evening at the Lees Cliff Halls in Folkestone. Everyone wore England style shirts - including me and gently gave the Australian band (who were magnificent) stick for their loss - great day. This weekends fantastic game at the latest World Cup (Paris) between England and South Africa was truly brilliant - even if the result wasn't. Well done England in 2003, and being so close in 2023.
What made this game so good and exciting to watch. Australia were the home nation (it was thier world cup) After full time it was 14-14 After Extra time it was 17-17 There was 28 seconds left on the clock when Jonny made that Drop goal.
A drop goal is very difficult. The ball has to touch the ground just before you kick it - like a half volley in soccer. But much harder given the shape of a rugby ball. Scoring a drop goal in the final stages of a World Cup final before a huge crowd of mostly Ozzies was an amazing achievement. Before the match an Australian newspaper had a front page full page photo of Wilkinson with the headline IS THIS ALL YOU’VE GOT? Mocking England’s reliance on goals kicked by Wilkinson rather than scoring flamboyant tries. Wonderful irony then that England beat them in a final in Australia thanks to a kicked goal.
@@bushbabybotha9943 Relatively easy if you’ve played rugby for as long as you’ve been able to walk. Not so easy if you’ve never played. Very difficult to drop goals off either foot, with equal facility, like Jonny.
I think England v All Blacks (my team) in the last World Cup was as strong a performance from England that I have ever seen. What I think the 2003 team had was more consistency.
You should watch the games from this weekends World Cup as they were a great showcase for International rugby, especially the France/SA and NZ/Ireland games which were so entertaining (it makes watching international football even more depressing😅). I played most of my rugby in the nineties and I thought the game had evolved massively since then in 2003. But watching this again, it amazes me how the game has evolved even further in terms of the strength and conditioning of the players, they are all absolute animals now!
I remember that day well. I was on my way into work in London, starting at 6am, when my car broke down in pouring rain just as I got to the outskirts of London. I had my car recovered and was taken to pick up a loan car. I had to drive across central London, all the pubs had people queueing to get in (at 7am, iirc it kicked off about 9am UK time) Got to work and we all watched it in the production office, nothing was run until the end of the game. What a game that was.
I remember watching this live. My dad was a massive rugby fan but he was so tense he couldnt watch, so he went upstairs to play on the PC and listen on the radio. We knew Wilkinson had scored and won the match for us, because there was about a 2 second depay between the radio broadcast and the TV, and we heard my dad cheer just as Jonny kicked the ball.
This really does show how the game has moved on in the last 20 years. Conditioning, strength, pace and defensive discipline is on another level now. Fun to reminisce though. I watched every match in the Hogs Back brewery in Surrey. Never drank in the morning again!
Yes and as a country you shamed yourselves. First your PM during the medals and then as a whole. My nephew grew up in Australia and school flag day was soon after this, he took his England flag in and his teacher confiscated it and refused to let him show it. Poor losers.
I’ve played rugby my whole life an although I was very little when this happened it is ingrained in my brain as one of my earliest memories. If you want a great showing of American rugby check out this years MLR final it was fantastic to watch.
I'm not really a huge fan of rugby (more of a football (soccer) fan myself), but for some reason in 2003 I watched the Rugby World Cup from the start of the tournament and gradually got _really_ into it. Right from the very beginning there was just this noticeable buzz surrounding the England team and a feeling that we could pull off something amazing. I'll never forget that final. It was magical! Because the tournament was being held in Australia, that final was on at like 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning in England, and because it was such a huge occasion, loads of pubs opened up super early to show the game. Of course I had to go.... So there I was, in the pub, at 7 am, getting pissed up with a bunch of proper rugby fans...... When Jonny Wilkinson kicked that drop goal in the final seconds....holy crap! What an amazing moment! I've never seen scenes like it before or since! The pub went absolutely ballistic! When that ball went out of play for the final time, ending the game and confirming that we'd _actually_ won the World Cup, it sparked an all day piss up around the whole town! It was like the whole town, the whole COUNTRY was celebrating! Probably one of the greatest days of my life, and like I've said, I'm _not even that big of a fan_ of rugby....but this win was truly special! A proper 'Once-In-A-Lifetime' moment. I've never seen our football team win a World Cup, but I HAVE seen our rugby team win it! That's my '1966' moment. That's my 'England winning the World Cup' moment.
The quarter finals for this years world cup just wrapped up, every one of those games were fucking awesome. But Ireland V All Blacks and France V Springboks are the ones to watch.
For context, the scores were 17-17 with a few seconds remaining when he hit that 'drop goal' (which is worth 3 pts) A 'drop goal' is an exceptionally hard skill to master. Imagine kicking a 30-40 yard field goal in NFL but you have to kick it from hand after running around the field for 80 minutes. The kicker in rugby doesn't just get to sit on the sidelines until he's required to kick at goal, no he plays the full match also! LOL!
I'd also like to point out somthing people not into the sport miss, you must drop the ball, the ball hit the floor and bounce.. and THEN kick it.... that makes it a thousand times harder then just dropping it and kicking it 👍
I'm primarily a football fan: the real kind where they kick the ball. I watched, on TV, the recent NFL game in London. It was okay. I've also watched quite a bit of the rugby World Cup. Two of the quarter-final games this weekend were among the greatest sporting events I've ever seen in any sport. It seems like a lot of people feel much the same.
The score was just a couple of points difference for the whole game, the England kick at the end just won the match as the Australians were just in front by one or two points.
Can you guys get the 2023 rugby world cup matches in the states? Quater finals have just gone this weekend- boy, some great matches to watch the highlights! Semi finals next weekend - England vs South Africa & New Zealand vs Argentina. Epic
This was the last game I watched with my Dad before we emigrated to NZ 5 days later and I spent the last 10 minutes pacing up and down outside with the radio on in my car and smoking a cig cos I just couldn't watch it was so tense. Love Jonny a real pro
Funny how in rugby you do have to touch the ball down to score, but Touchdown is the term used in American football even if you are seven feet it the air crossing the goalline. Shows the shared roots of them both!
Watch the NewZealand Haka from a few days ago vs Italy. Then watch NewZealand vs Ireland. Then watch France v South Africa. This wold cup has been unbelievable
I still have a toy rugby ball from a mate of my dad (in the same rugby club, I was born 2003 and like 8 months old at the time, apparently nearly going in the air every time we got points 😅) that plays the commentary from the drop-goal and I know it off by heart: "There's 35 seconds to go, this is the one, it's coming back for Jonny Wilkinson, HE DROPS FOR WORLD CUP GLORY IT'S UP!!!! IT'S OVER!!! HE'S DONE IT!!! JONNY WILKINSON IS ENGLAND'S HERO, YET AGAIN!! AND THERE'S NO TIME FOR AUSTRALIA TO COME BACK, ENGLAND HAVE JUST WON THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!"
I remember watching this final in the common room of my university halls in Hull, England, with my hallmates in the small hours of the morning. The place went absolutely NUTS when England won - we must have pissed our neighbours right off we made so much noise! 😂
Ahhh, good memories. Myself, friends and family went to a local pub around 8am (due to the time difference as the World Cup was held in Australia), had a full English breakfast and lots of beer while watching the game. There were about four Australian fans in there (likely studying at the local university) and they got the piss ripped out of them afterwards!
When England reached the final, there were absolute fleets of aircraft bringing extra thousands of England fans out to Australia for the final. Must have been similar to the Berlin Airlift!
The crazy part is that he kicked that winning kick with the wrong foot. If you notice all of his kicks throughout were with his left foot, but won the world by kicking off his other foot.
It's a shame that the scores weren't shown, giving you a better idea of what was happening. Basically, IIRC, Australia took a 5-0 lead with a try (touchdown) from a cross-field kick but missed the conversation (extra point kick) which would have been worth two points. England then scored three penalties (kicks at goal) worth three points each to take a 9-5 lead. England then added an unconverted try to lead 14-5 before Australia scored three penalties to level the scores. At 14-14, the match went to extra time, during which both teams scored one penalty each, bringing the score to 17 apiece. With very little time remaining, Jonny Wilkinson scored the drop goal (kick at goal in open play) worth three points. (Because of the difficulty of drop goals (having to kick the odd-shaped ball just as it bounces), teams do not generally attempt them unless the referee is letting them play "advantage" over an infringement by the other team. With "advantage", you can risk something like a drop goal attempt, because if you fall, you will get a scrum or a penalty awarded to you anyway. I do not recall whether England had advantage on this occasion). The final move of the game was England kicking the ball into touch (out of bounds) deliberately, because, once time is up, the game continues until a certain kind of stoppage, so kicking the ball out of play brought the game to an end.
The England player you see throwing the ball in from the touchline (Player No2 ) is Steve Thompson. Sadly, the poor guy now has early onset dementia ( at age 45) and can no longer remember the game, or indeed being in Australia for the tournament. He and over 200 other players have brought class action lawsuits against the rugby governing bodies for negligence in not taking the issues of concussion seriously at that time. Steve suffered numerous head knocks during his career and in those days players used to just get on with it, frequently carrying on a game in a daze.
It is the Rugby World Cup right now. We are down to the last four, next weekend is England vs South Africa and Argentina vs New Zealand with the winners playing each other in the final on 21st and the losers playing the 3rd place play off on 20th.
You should watch the England, New Zealand 20-20 cricket final from 2019. Last ball decider. "By the barest of margins". Probably one of the best cricket matches ever.
Rugby is the best sport in the world. Was talking to an American in Paris last week and he enjoys it. Told him if America got their act together, they could easily be a force if they decided to invest in it properly. Do hope you enjoy watching the games. If you look for an English team to support, my team is Bath Rugby club. The world Cup is on at the moment, missed some belting games in the quarter finals. The semis will be less intense sadly becuase new zealand and South Africa are superior to England and Argentina but you never know.
The drop goal near the end is a bit of a dying art in Rugby as defences are now so fast they rush up and block it so it is a low percentage option. That said it was still in the NF L rulebook when Doug Flutie did one in his final year, think it was on an extra point?
that sneakiness is basically what won it for Enlgand that year. They had a very strong "ruk"and "maul" game (depending if the ball is on the ground or not)
Plus it was easily one of the most talented back lines for their respective positions, massive bruising centres, silky half backs and a lighting quick back three. It was just the perfect team and Australia being Australia they almost had an answer for everything.
Australia had the better backs, England much better forwards. Wilkinson couldn't have set a new tier in the kicking game without the English forward pack
@@PjRjHj yeah very true overall Australia had one of the best back lines ever but few teams had the similar levels on both like England had at that time.
You need context, this was such an important kick. I had the TV on in the kitchen and i couldn't sit down, i was pacing up and down, i remember watching Wilkinson waiting for his chance to kick it. The tension was unbearable.
I was in the Westoe Rugby Club watching this game. A lad I knew had a new girlfriend who wasn't up to speed with the ins and outs. "Why did they get a penalty?" she asked. "Knock on," he said. "Why did they get a penalty?" she asked. "They went in at the side...supposedly..." he answered. "Why did they get a penalty?" she asked. "He didn't release the ball quick enough,... apparently" he answered. "Why did they get a penalty?" she asked. "The useless tosspot ref is saying WE deliberately collapsed the scrum!" "Why did they get a penalty?" she asked. "Because the Saffer is a c***!" he exclaimed "... GIVE IT TO JOHNNY!". They're married now with three kids and she's up to speed.
The only England team that really was destined to be Champions of the World. You just knew they would!! The winning points coming from the right foot of a left footed kicker!! The irony of it being that the only Northern Hemisphere team to ever win it would do it in the Southern Hemisphere!!
I've not really had anything to do with rugby since school (where I hated it). But I know enough that when videos like this pop up I feel I actually want to find out more about it, as a spectator. To appreciate what is actually going on, and what these tallented athletes are actually doing. Football (soccer) I understand well enough to see that I have no interest whatsoever in those mostly whining over-paid inarticulate muppets. But rugby; I can see that's a completely different ball game. AFL too, probably. (I aldo agree with others that watching this with no commentary is a _really_ hard intro into the sport!)
Score timeline: 1ST HALF AUS 5-0 ENG (try, conversion missed) AUS 5-3 ENG (penalty) AUS 5-6 ENG (penalty) AUS 5-9 ENG (penalty) AUS 5-14 ENG (try, conversion missed) 2ND HALF AUS 8-14 ENG (penalty) AUS 11-14 ENG (penalty) AUS 14-14 ENG (penalty) 1ST HALF OF EXTRA TIME AUS 14-17 ENG (penalty) 2ND HALF OF EXTRA TIME AUS 17-17 ENG (penalty) AUS 17-20 ENG (drop goal)
You really needed the commentary and score to really enjoy this and understand why the penalties were been given. Very difficult for non rugby fans to understand just watching the game .
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Jonny Wilkinson played in the final with a fractured neck and still kicks the winning drop goal. Absolute legend.
The score was level pegging at 17 each and then Jonny kicked the drop goal giving England the 3 points which won them the World Cup!
More than that it was 14-14 at the end of full time, each team scored in extra time to make it 17-17 there and there were 28 seconds left on the clock when Jonny scored.
Doesn't just need the score. It needs the commentary. They add so much to the game.
Ian Robertson's commentary of the Wilkinson kicking the drop goal is one of the greatest bits of commentary of all time.
The other best moment of this tournament was the look on Australian Prime Minister John Howard's face when he was handing out the trophy later on.
Priceless 😂😂
Apparently he was really nice out of sight of the cameras. I think the petulance was just for domestic consumption.
You need to watch the whole of last night's World Cup game between France and Soth Africa .It is probably the greatest rugby game ever.
Still think France beating NZ in 99 as better.
Go watch penrith vs brisbane in this years nrl final, proper rugby
It was epic, especially the first half.
Agreed. The whole weekend has been has a feast entertaining rugby!
Absolutely… A truly astonishing game. I hope no one is let on who won
I remember this because Australians at home in pubs etc started to celebrate an Australian win then Jonny scored in the last moments and everything turned to silence.
Thanks for reviewing this great moment in English sporting history. I recall it so well. My 50th Birthday 22November2003. What a game to watch and celebrate with. To top it all my wife had booked us to see the Australian Pink Floyd that evening at the Lees Cliff Halls in Folkestone. Everyone wore England style shirts - including me and gently gave the Australian band (who were magnificent) stick for their loss - great day. This weekends fantastic game at the latest World Cup (Paris) between England and South Africa was truly brilliant - even if the result wasn't. Well done England in 2003, and being so close in 2023.
I'm a rugby fan but without the commentators, referee, or the score I have no idea what's going on either!
What made this game so good and exciting to watch.
Australia were the home nation (it was thier world cup)
After full time it was 14-14
After Extra time it was 17-17
There was 28 seconds left on the clock when Jonny made that Drop goal.
A drop goal is very difficult. The ball has to touch the ground just before you kick it - like a half volley in soccer. But much harder given the shape of a rugby ball. Scoring a drop goal in the final stages of a World Cup final before a huge crowd of mostly Ozzies was an amazing achievement. Before the match an Australian newspaper had a front page full page photo of Wilkinson with the headline IS THIS ALL YOU’VE GOT? Mocking England’s reliance on goals kicked by Wilkinson rather than scoring flamboyant tries. Wonderful irony then that England beat them in a final in Australia thanks to a kicked goal.
Very easy actually.
@@bushbabybotha9943
Relatively easy if you’ve played rugby for as long as you’ve been able to walk.
Not so easy if you’ve never played.
Very difficult to drop goals off either foot, with equal facility, like Jonny.
Will never forget Saturday, 22nd November 2003 - the greatest day in English rugby Union history 😁😁😁 🏴🌹🏴🌹🏴🌹 🏆🥇
@@andywrong3247 I thought it was until I Googled and it was a Saturday 😁
This hurts slightly as an England fan because we've never been quite this great since.
Been close a few times, but we were nigh on unbeatable at this time
I think England v All Blacks (my team) in the last World Cup was as strong a performance from England that I have ever seen. What I think the 2003 team had was more consistency.
Hurts a bit more for Australia, as they've been ever worse than England since
Hurts more as an Aussie (but it's a great final) especially as the future of the sport in Australia is increasingly bleak.
Crikey, England playing real rugby, who would have thought it.
You should watch the games from this weekends World Cup as they were a great showcase for International rugby, especially the France/SA and NZ/Ireland games which were so entertaining (it makes watching international football even more depressing😅). I played most of my rugby in the nineties and I thought the game had evolved massively since then in 2003. But watching this again, it amazes me how the game has evolved even further in terms of the strength and conditioning of the players, they are all absolute animals now!
I remember that day well. I was on my way into work in London, starting at 6am, when my car broke down in pouring rain just as I got to the outskirts of London. I had my car recovered and was taken to pick up a loan car. I had to drive across central London, all the pubs had people queueing to get in (at 7am, iirc it kicked off about 9am UK time) Got to work and we all watched it in the production office, nothing was run until the end of the game. What a game that was.
You guys should do a live stream next weekend for the semi final, England vs South Africa
If Springboks don't do to England what NZ did to Pumas. That was not a great game
The France v South Africa last night was an insane game of rugby
I remember watching this live. My dad was a massive rugby fan but he was so tense he couldnt watch, so he went upstairs to play on the PC and listen on the radio.
We knew Wilkinson had scored and won the match for us, because there was about a 2 second depay between the radio broadcast and the TV, and we heard my dad cheer just as Jonny kicked the ball.
This really does show how the game has moved on in the last 20 years. Conditioning, strength, pace and defensive discipline is on another level now. Fun to reminisce though. I watched every match in the Hogs Back brewery in Surrey. Never drank in the morning again!
Ah, remember it well. Jonny Wilkinson - hero
Kicking the drop goal to win the World Cup with your weak foot shows the skill Wilkinson had
You should check the highlights of Sundays game between France and South africa one of the greatest wc games
And this is why rugby is so good
As an Aussie this was so heartbreaking to watch live. What an era this was!
Lol not for us😂 could have gone either way but for Jonny ,near had a heart attack watching though!!
Yes and as a country you shamed yourselves. First your PM during the medals and then as a whole. My nephew grew up in Australia and school flag day was soon after this, he took his England flag in and his teacher confiscated it and refused to let him show it. Poor losers.
@@cloveritePerhaps they were not allowed to take any flags into the school?
Was working that day, heard it on the radio and then went home and watched the recording of the game (on VHS.) Great moment for England Rugby!
What an exciting game!!! Maryland Representin' Daniel and Spencer!!
I’ve played rugby my whole life an although I was very little when this happened it is ingrained in my brain as one of my earliest memories. If you want a great showing of American rugby check out this years MLR final it was fantastic to watch.
I'm not really a huge fan of rugby (more of a football (soccer) fan myself), but for some reason in 2003 I watched the Rugby World Cup from the start of the tournament and gradually got _really_ into it. Right from the very beginning there was just this noticeable buzz surrounding the England team and a feeling that we could pull off something amazing.
I'll never forget that final. It was magical!
Because the tournament was being held in Australia, that final was on at like 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning in England, and because it was such a huge occasion, loads of pubs opened up super early to show the game. Of course I had to go....
So there I was, in the pub, at 7 am, getting pissed up with a bunch of proper rugby fans......
When Jonny Wilkinson kicked that drop goal in the final seconds....holy crap! What an amazing moment! I've never seen scenes like it before or since! The pub went absolutely ballistic! When that ball went out of play for the final time, ending the game and confirming that we'd _actually_ won the World Cup, it sparked an all day piss up around the whole town! It was like the whole town, the whole COUNTRY was celebrating!
Probably one of the greatest days of my life, and like I've said, I'm _not even that big of a fan_ of rugby....but this win was truly special! A proper 'Once-In-A-Lifetime' moment. I've never seen our football team win a World Cup, but I HAVE seen our rugby team win it! That's my '1966' moment. That's my 'England winning the World Cup' moment.
try watching the highlights from this weekends World cup quarter final between France and South Africa..... epic game.
Made all the more impressive by the fact he is left footed but scored the winning points with his right foot.
The quarter finals for this years world cup just wrapped up, every one of those games were fucking awesome. But Ireland V All Blacks and France V Springboks are the ones to watch.
For context, the scores were 17-17 with a few seconds remaining when he hit that 'drop goal' (which is worth 3 pts)
A 'drop goal' is an exceptionally hard skill to master. Imagine kicking a 30-40 yard field goal in NFL but you have to kick it from hand after running around the field for 80 minutes. The kicker in rugby doesn't just get to sit on the sidelines until he's required to kick at goal, no he plays the full match also! LOL!
I'd also like to point out somthing people not into the sport miss, you must drop the ball, the ball hit the floor and bounce.. and THEN kick it.... that makes it a thousand times harder then just dropping it and kicking it 👍
There are drop-kicks in the NFL too. But they occur very rarely.
& it was a world cup final AND it was in Austraila's back yard!! - epic
I'm primarily a football fan: the real kind where they kick the ball. I watched, on TV, the recent NFL game in London. It was okay. I've also watched quite a bit of the rugby World Cup. Two of the quarter-final games this weekend were among the greatest sporting events I've ever seen in any sport. It seems like a lot of people feel much the same.
the three seconds that ball was in the air
10 year old experienced every single emotion possible
Jonny Wilkinson, my hero - the best drop goaler I have ever seen !!!
Most impressive thing…. Is Jonny Wilkinson kicked that drop goal off his right foot when he’s a left footed kicker
Got to watch all the matches that happened this weekend. Extended Highlights all of them.
I was at this game sitting behind the posts , what you should know is that Jonny is left footed , this was the only right footed drop goal he scored .
The score was just a couple of points difference for the whole game, the England kick at the end just won the match as the Australians were just in front by one or two points.
And this is why the Pub Landlord calls Australia, Wilkinson Land 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Can you guys get the 2023 rugby world cup matches in the states? Quater finals have just gone this weekend- boy, some great matches to watch the highlights! Semi finals next weekend - England vs South Africa & New Zealand vs Argentina. Epic
This was the last game I watched with my Dad before we emigrated to NZ 5 days later and I spent the last 10 minutes pacing up and down outside with the radio on in my car and smoking a cig cos I just couldn't watch it was so tense. Love Jonny a real pro
Funny how in rugby you do have to touch the ball down to score, but Touchdown is the term used in American football even if you are seven feet it the air crossing the goalline. Shows the shared roots of them both!
Watch the NewZealand Haka from a few days ago vs Italy.
Then watch NewZealand vs Ireland.
Then watch France v South Africa.
This wold cup has been unbelievable
I still have a toy rugby ball from a mate of my dad (in the same rugby club, I was born 2003 and like 8 months old at the time, apparently nearly going in the air every time we got points 😅) that plays the commentary from the drop-goal and I know it off by heart:
"There's 35 seconds to go, this is the one, it's coming back for Jonny Wilkinson, HE DROPS FOR WORLD CUP GLORY IT'S UP!!!! IT'S OVER!!! HE'S DONE IT!!! JONNY WILKINSON IS ENGLAND'S HERO, YET AGAIN!! AND THERE'S NO TIME FOR AUSTRALIA TO COME BACK, ENGLAND HAVE JUST WON THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!"
I watched this at home and literally hit the ceiling when Johnny scored. It's always great to beat the Aussies but in a World final - - - wow!!!!!!!
I remember watching this final in the common room of my university halls in Hull, England, with my hallmates in the small hours of the morning. The place went absolutely NUTS when England won - we must have pissed our neighbours right off we made so much noise! 😂
that last kick to win the game was awesome .
The game yesterday was an absolute epic
Fra Sa take a bow what a game
i love watching this game and the cherry on the cake is David Campese walking naked down Oxford St when we won Ha Ha Ha
Ahhh, good memories. Myself, friends and family went to a local pub around 8am (due to the time difference as the World Cup was held in Australia), had a full English breakfast and lots of beer while watching the game. There were about four Australian fans in there (likely studying at the local university) and they got the piss ripped out of them afterwards!
When England reached the final, there were absolute fleets of aircraft bringing extra thousands of England fans out to Australia for the final. Must have been similar to the Berlin Airlift!
Such a shame there was no score update or commentary. You guys are missing all the drama that comes with it .
I remember watching this in 2003 with my son
You MUST / NEED to watch full games.
The crazy part is that he kicked that winning kick with the wrong foot. If you notice all of his kicks throughout were with his left foot, but won the world by kicking off his other foot.
It's a shame that the scores weren't shown, giving you a better idea of what was happening. Basically, IIRC, Australia took a 5-0 lead with a try (touchdown) from a cross-field kick but missed the conversation (extra point kick) which would have been worth two points. England then scored three penalties (kicks at goal) worth three points each to take a 9-5 lead. England then added an unconverted try to lead 14-5 before Australia scored three penalties to level the scores. At 14-14, the match went to extra time, during which both teams scored one penalty each, bringing the score to 17 apiece. With very little time remaining, Jonny Wilkinson scored the drop goal (kick at goal in open play) worth three points. (Because of the difficulty of drop goals (having to kick the odd-shaped ball just as it bounces), teams do not generally attempt them unless the referee is letting them play "advantage" over an infringement by the other team. With "advantage", you can risk something like a drop goal attempt, because if you fall, you will get a scrum or a penalty awarded to you anyway. I do not recall whether England had advantage on this occasion). The final move of the game was England kicking the ball into touch (out of bounds) deliberately, because, once time is up, the game continues until a certain kind of stoppage, so kicking the ball out of play brought the game to an end.
Goosebumps
Great, great game.
The latest rugby World Cup is underway in France as I type. You could watch England in the semi final vs South Africa this weekend
The England player you see throwing the ball in from the touchline (Player No2 ) is Steve Thompson. Sadly, the poor guy now has early onset dementia ( at age 45) and can no longer remember the game, or indeed being in Australia for the tournament. He and over 200 other players have brought class action lawsuits against the rugby governing bodies for negligence in not taking the issues of concussion seriously at that time. Steve suffered numerous head knocks during his career and in those days players used to just get on with it, frequently carrying on a game in a daze.
I remember it well ❤
watch the 2023 world cup new zealand against ireland close game it was
It's just not the same without the commentary, makes it at least 50% more dramatic
what a game...
This is why Al Murray called it wilkinson land lol.
Needs the commentary on this
I got the kick off time wrong for the final, turned the TV on maybe 3 seconds before the kick 😂
It’s worth remembering that Wilkinson is left footed. He hit that off his right foot
It is the Rugby World Cup right now. We are down to the last four, next weekend is England vs South Africa and Argentina vs New Zealand with the winners playing each other in the final on 21st and the losers playing the 3rd place play off on 20th.
Think that's the semis this coming weekend Paul. 3rd place play-off Friday 27th and Final Saturday 28th?
@@johnnyonenote376 Doh!
World Cup is on right now, Semi \finals are Friday and Saturday
this coming saturday is the final of the rugby world cup, be worth finding out where you can watch it
You should watch the England, New Zealand 20-20 cricket final from 2019. Last ball decider. "By the barest of margins".
Probably one of the best cricket matches ever.
Rugby is the best sport in the world. Was talking to an American in Paris last week and he enjoys it. Told him if America got their act together, they could easily be a force if they decided to invest in it properly. Do hope you enjoy watching the games. If you look for an English team to support, my team is Bath Rugby club.
The world Cup is on at the moment, missed some belting games in the quarter finals. The semis will be less intense sadly becuase new zealand and South Africa are superior to England and Argentina but you never know.
Follow it lads...A fantastic game,......you guys are hosting the Rugby World Cup in 2031.
The current Rugby World Cup has been phenominal!! Semi's and Final still to go!!
The drop goal near the end is a bit of a dying art in Rugby as defences are now so fast they rush up and block it so it is a low percentage option. That said it was still in the NF L rulebook when Doug Flutie did one in his final year, think it was on an extra point?
I like you guys. But as an Aussie and massive Wallabies fan, watching this one was tough 😢
I’m old enough to remember ‘91. That wasn’t nice for us either.
Best wishes.
Checkout Rugby World Cup highlights 2019 England vs South Africa
that sneakiness is basically what won it for Enlgand that year. They had a very strong "ruk"and "maul" game (depending if the ball is on the ground or not)
Plus it was easily one of the most talented back lines for their respective positions, massive bruising centres, silky half backs and a lighting quick back three. It was just the perfect team and Australia being Australia they almost had an answer for everything.
@@Jimbo-wx9pu nearly ruined by one of the worst refereeing of the scrum performances i have ever seen
Australia had the better backs, England much better forwards. Wilkinson couldn't have set a new tier in the kicking game without the English forward pack
@@PjRjHj yeah very true overall Australia had one of the best back lines ever but few teams had the similar levels on both like England had at that time.
Last guy kicked it out of touch because in rugby the game can go beyond the final whistle, but only until the ball is put out of touch.
You guys should watch the Rugby Quarter finals!
Rugby world cup is going on right now in france. Should watch highlights. Its in the semis now
You need context, this was such an important kick. I had the TV on in the kitchen and i couldn't sit down, i was pacing up and down, i remember watching Wilkinson waiting for his chance to kick it. The tension was unbearable.
The world cup is on at the moment. Only 3 games left
Can't believe its 20 years ago still remember watching it clearly with now wife, unbelievable finish
you should check out the France vs South africa quarter final from Sunday
NFL just doesn’t come anywhere close to comparing to this game. The kicker doesn’t come on and off just to kick.
Still traumatised. Didn't breath for over an hour from half time.
Welcome to rugby.
Should watch the most intense 3 minutes of rugby ever played!
This was on my 20th birthday - I would have had a very bad day had England lost!
I was in the Westoe Rugby Club watching this game. A lad I knew had a new girlfriend who wasn't up to speed with the ins and outs.
"Why did they get a penalty?" she asked.
"Knock on," he said.
"Why did they get a penalty?" she asked.
"They went in at the side...supposedly..." he answered.
"Why did they get a penalty?" she asked.
"He didn't release the ball quick enough,... apparently" he answered.
"Why did they get a penalty?" she asked.
"The useless tosspot ref is saying WE deliberately collapsed the scrum!"
"Why did they get a penalty?" she asked.
"Because the Saffer is a c***!" he exclaimed "... GIVE IT TO JOHNNY!".
They're married now with three kids and she's up to speed.
The only England team that really was destined to be Champions of the World. You just knew they would!! The winning points coming from the right foot of a left footed kicker!!
The irony of it being that the only Northern Hemisphere team to ever win it would do it in the Southern Hemisphere!!
I've not really had anything to do with rugby since school (where I hated it).
But I know enough that when videos like this pop up I feel I actually want to find out more about it, as a spectator.
To appreciate what is actually going on, and what these tallented athletes are actually doing.
Football (soccer) I understand well enough to see that I have no interest whatsoever in those mostly whining over-paid inarticulate muppets.
But rugby; I can see that's a completely different ball game.
AFL too, probably.
(I aldo agree with others that watching this with no commentary is a _really_ hard intro into the sport!)
Score timeline:
1ST HALF
AUS 5-0 ENG (try, conversion missed)
AUS 5-3 ENG (penalty)
AUS 5-6 ENG (penalty)
AUS 5-9 ENG (penalty)
AUS 5-14 ENG (try, conversion missed)
2ND HALF
AUS 8-14 ENG (penalty)
AUS 11-14 ENG (penalty)
AUS 14-14 ENG (penalty)
1ST HALF OF EXTRA TIME
AUS 14-17 ENG (penalty)
2ND HALF OF EXTRA TIME
AUS 17-17 ENG (penalty)
AUS 17-20 ENG (drop goal)
ah man I wished you'd watched the highlights with commentary and the score. You'd have gotten the sheer drama of it all so much more.
Check out the World cup going on right now. Semis coming up soon, Argentina v New Zealand & England v South Africa. Enjoy!
You guys should watch the scotland japan match in the World cup it was a great game
Yes a great shame that the video did not have the scores up so you could catch the seesaw nature of the game
The first and only (still) time a northern hemisphere nation has won the world cup.
You really needed the commentary and score to really enjoy this and understand why the penalties were been given. Very difficult for non rugby fans to understand just watching the game .