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Here are the teams that competed at the 1991 Rugby World Cup: Previous quarter-finalists: Australia, England, Fiji, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Eight qualifiers: Argentina, Canada, Italy, Japan, Romania, United States, Western Samoa and Zimbabwe.
As the hosts, England reached the final of the 1991 tournament at Twickenham, where they faced Australia. Fly-half Michael Lynagh opened the scoring for Australia with a penalty in the 27th minute. They extended their lead before half-time when prop Tony Daly scored a try, which was converted by Lynagh.
YearWinnersFinal ScoreRunners-up- 1987
- International (World Rugby)
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- Rugby union
- The Build-Up
- Pool Stages
- England V New Zealand, 3 October Twickenham
- Pool Stage Results
- Road to The Quarter-Final
- Quarter-Final - France V England, 19 October, Parc Des Princes
- Road to The Semi-Final
- The Semi-Final - Scotland V England, 26 October, Murrayfield
- The Final – Australia V England, 2 November, Twickenham
- The Aftermath
England went into the World Cup as grand slam champions having pipped France 21-19in their final game at Twickenham in the Five Nations; the silverware was won after three years of hard work following the disappointment of the 1987 World Cup. But their illusions of grandeur had been shattered on their summer tour when they were defeated 40-15 in Sy...
England’s buildup was low-key in the amateur era but things changed once the tournament began. PW:You didn’t really feel any hype before the tournament started. Once it was up and running it was getting a lot of coverage but it’s nothing like it is now. One thing that you did realise was that a lot of non-rugby people were able to look at the game ...
Geoff Cooke’s side did not have an easy start to their campaign, facing New Zealand at Twickenham, and the champions won 18-12 courtesy of a Michael Jones try, a Grant Fox conversion and four penalties … Roger Uttley, England coach assisting Cooke: The fact that we had to play New Zealand in the first matchwas a bit of a handicap. With players like...
3 October: England 12-18 New Zealand 8 October: England 36-6 Italy 11 October: England 37-9 United States
RU:We went for a bit of a rest in Jersey. The players enjoyed themselves. Geoff and I got presented with an enormous bar bill, Peter Winterbottom had quite a lot to do with it, I believe, but because we were winning that was brushed under the carpet. It was a great weekend. That pack of forwards were all characters. There was a little bit of us and...
In the Five Nations, England’s power and physicality had overcome three fine tries by France and having beaten them in Paris the previous year, the English believed they could use their strength to unsettle the home side’s main attacking threat, Serge Blanco … RU: We had sorted the guys out and left them in the changing room and we came out of the ...
PW:We’d all been on rugby tours before and it was like a tour at home really. We didn’t have much time at home. We had a few games of golf, a few good nights out – probably more than these guys will have now – and we did a lot more training than we’d normally do. I remember a game of golf up in Scotland when Jason Leonard and Jeff Probyn had no eti...
The previous year Scotland had seized the grand slam from England on the same ground. The visitors’ determination to avoid a repeat meant they focused on their strengths, attritional 10-man rugby. Even so the game is remembered for one of the most remarkable missed penalties in history by the normally unflappable Gavin Hastings. SH: When we played ...
Australia had beaten the All Blacks in their semi-final, and in English minds before the game was their heavy defeat in the summer and the increasing criticism of their style of play. RU:We received an awful lot of stick for being dull and boring. By the time we got to the final we were so sick of it that Will and the lads thought: “we can actually...
PW:Watching Nick Farr-Jones going up to collect the trophy from the Queen is absolutely the lowlight of my career. I’ve never been so emotional after a game. It was devastating. We had put so much into it and got so close and when you don’t actually get over the line it’s pretty hard to take. I think there was dinner afterwards in the Royal Lancast...
The ninth Rugby World Cup Final will be played in Japan at the weekend. Just to refresh the memory of finals past, we have given some details the first eight of these dramatic matches. 0
France played Australia in one of the semi-finals with New Zealand playing Wales in the other. New Zealand became the first ever Rugby World Cup Champions, defeating France 29-9 at Eden Park in Auckland .
Australia's 1991 World Cup final win over England brought rugby union into a new era of money, media attention and mass public awareness. This classic match capped a spectacular...
Sep 17, 2015 · LONDON, 15 Sept - We continue our series reliving the Rugby World Cup finals through the eyes of the main protagonists with a look back at the 1991 Rugby World Cup final between host England and Australia. Australia 12-6 England, Twickenham, 2 November 1991 The anticipation