Rugby World Cup 2015: the lesson of history Pierre Salviac – The Point

When the Australians inflicted to the English the most humiliating defeat in their history comes to mind this prediction former international Rob Andrew “The England team will be ready in four years.” Well done.

Personally, I do not expect this missed opportunity. Before the game, I could not imagine that England, at the foot of the wall, being eliminated. Rather, I was wondering how would the arbitral body to cause the defeat of Australia! I remember the final victories of South Africa in 1995 and New Zealand in 2011 and that of France in 2007 quarter-final (against New Zealand). All of these selections have benefited from favoring arbitration as organizing country. I thought England would in turn benefit from the status of host nation of the World.

I was even ready to suspect the French referee of the meeting, Romain Poite, party phoned taken against Australia, which would have saved England! Except that taking a quick and comfortable advantage through two school tests, the Wallabies have nipped in the bud these rantings and this is the best service they have rendered to rugby and the World Cup.

Revenge of the story

So why this masterful missed England in this pool of death (England, Australia, Wales, Uruguay, Fiji)? Why have we not seen come this humiliation? I think that the preparation matches should have put us on guard. Finally, an England team beaten by a French team in bad health in August (25-20) should not be so strong that claimed it.

Jean Pierre Rives was the used to say: “The English never lose but sometimes they are beaten.” In turn, the Welsh and Australians come to agree with the icon of French rugby. But more than just a victory, it is also revenge on the story Wales and Australia have taken in this competition definitely not short on surprises. Welsh dispossessed people of all these riches by the English dominant, an Australian nation after convicts out of the London prisons to be exiled to the other end of the world. Two martyrs of history who take advantage of the World Cup to put perfidious Albion to 10 meters, it is also why in my eyes the 2015 World Cup is a great vintage.