20 years later and still loving it. :)

Fantastic stat I only realised recently. Between 1999 Rugby world cup to the end of the 2003 Rugby world cup England never lost a game when they started with Wilkinson, Hill, Back, Dallaglio and Martin Johnson at 4. It shows just how important those 5 were to the England team.

Hill, Back and Dallaglio vs Betsen, Magne and Harinordoquy. Unreal. So many incredible flankers were around then.

I’m at nearly 70 mins and just one England sub made. Just shows how much the games changed in under 20 years. More Subs slower scrums and line out set ups and I’m pretty sure these older style players could kick for touch much further. Miss the old game

Classic wet weather rugby by England. Wilkinson's kicking is impeccable. As Usual.

It just shows what a great player wilkinson was

What a game. Now we have 3-minute scrums, caterpillar rucks, morriss-dance lineouts, endless reviews, plays for penalties, whooping, and players that can benchpress 300kg but can't kick a ball 50 metres. What the hell happened to our sport?

Was at the game! Twickenham in November conditions at the Sydney Stadium!!

Swing Low in the Aus/NZ semi was because you had to buy a package of tickets for the finals so there were a lot of English there. Of course we got a lot of boos for singing it, which funnily enough made us sing louder. Who’d have thought it. Watching the game back, they turned the mike’s down in the section we were mostly in, so you could hear it as clearly on tv.

I've watched it for 12 years and still can't see how the Betsen try was given - too much doubt

52.16 Betsen dirty play, deliberate raking of Dawson’s head with the boot. Hope the English Forwards sorted him out after!!

Best of all the unsportsman-like sniping of the Aussie commentators. They gag & spit like Sheila's but in the end they swallowed everything the "ageing English forwards" pumped down their throats. I'll wager not one of 'em ever watched this tournament again.

Bent referee and officials. But England still won. Yeah, man. Groovy.

I'm English but by god the French national anthem was sung absolutely incredibly before this game.

Mike Catt was a major key to our victory in that game. Nonetheless such wonderful times back then. Such a lot has happened since then. Some of it has been good. Ho hum.

Mmm. The French had the best back row in the world said Howarth .... Until The met The Holy Trinity

I was honoured to play for the Combined Services so, I have met many of our rugbt heroes x

U dont see passion like this in football, none of the players even know the lyrics. Its shameful......... RWC 2003 Proudest ive ever been to be English.

O come on now...He's part of Rugby history

Great England!!

When the rain began to fall, some french players lost their smile. This team wasn't maybe ready for a dirty and wet battle. That's life, fairplay to england to adapt and cherish this type of game

It would be nice to see more people from England liking this video. It seems like they don't care that they've won a World Cup.

I don't understand why we don't see people using drop-goals more often in rugby these days. Look at how many points Wilkinson kicks from drop-goals in this match. Edit: nine points from drop-kicks in this match for JW.

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Shocking day for Michalak

haha I love 1:12:58, Wilkinson 18-7 France :D

God save our gracious Pim's Long live our noble Pim's God save the Pim's ! Send her victorious Happy and glorious Long to reign over us God save the Pim's !

I just love to see the French come apart at the seams when things don't go their way HAHAHA!!

48.57 now that’s what you call a clear out,,

Je me souviens d'avoir vu ce match quand j'étais gosse ! La France menait, et d'un coup c'était les anglais !

Serge Betsen deliberately scraped his studs over Matt Dawson’s head. Dirty play

A not straght line out and the comment is, and I quote "Dallalglio, not one of his better ganes". Iiot. So nice to see Dalaglio making the try that killes the Aussies in the final.

Ouais mais il y avait Johnny !!!😮👏

I forgot how bad our lineouts were.

I hated the ref at the time. Nothing has changed.

England strangled France in this game

I hate that Paddy O’Brian France gave away so many penalties but he said no and it’s like bruh lol

Michalak. After one hour and 15 points missed

Right or left foot it dindnt matter to the goat

France 7 Wilkinson 24 😂 bogoff Aussie commentator. Too right we said it was revenge time for 1991.

michalak the invisible player lol for a fly half he was useless on a semi final.

Was he the guy whho actually played at high level? Suspect that might be why he is the only one making sense

Cornish props. That’s all

French never see Johnny Wilkinson.

The crazy thing about this world cup is England didnt play well in it bar this game really. Against Samoa we made really hard work of it and against Wales we were really poor against an average Welsh side. Going into this match, I remember we weren't all that confident. In reality, as a team, England were head and shoulders above all others. They had beaten every side home and away (bar South Africa as they hadn't played them away but had destroyed them at Twickenham) in the last couple of years. Even in the final, Australia really shouldn't have been anywhere near. South Africa were easily dismissed in the group stage. Also a few months prior they beat Australia and New Zealand in back to back tests in the southern hemisphere. Virtually unheard of

PS, see the ridicously biased commentary in the ENG v WAL game in the quarter final. I thougt so but see the comments to the ubutbe video. Thank go we had somw more qualiffied commentators for this one

cameras on managers more than the rugby - yet more garbage coverage am I dreaming that - football adverts during a rugby match ?

c'est ce qui m'enerve avec les joueurs francais. Ils cherchent souvent la baguarre avec les autres equipes comme pour affirmer leur virilité. Je ne vois pas ça avec les autres equipes. C'est le cas dans cette vidéo dés le debut du match et aujourd'hui avec des joueurs comme huget ou picamoles.

Two players yellow carded for foul play, when they are losing, quelle surprise

Gordon Bray would have to be the worst rugby ‘commentator’ ever. Of ALL time. To call his commentary drivel would be gross understatement.

what a joke leonard comes in for 5 mns and gets a cap no wonder he was a world record .

Grow up is all I have to say. I know you have seem to have an inferiority complex because of your history but you shoudn't, you've done amazing things from a sporting perspective, despite your massively racist attitude as a nation (remarkably given your history as a nation!). 25- years and you're kicking our arses at most sports

When the rain came down, it was England's game. If it stayed dry, France would've run it home

One of the worst games i have seen.

See whats wrong with this french team, mainly white