After quite a dissapointing final match, (no tries scored) South Africa have managed only a few minutes ago, to beat England in the Rugby World Cup final held in Paris.

This World Cup has really been the most shocking and unusual in the history of the sport. With current heavyweights like Ireland and New Zealand knocked out early, and teams like Argentina and England coming out with surprisingly strong preformances.

USA didn't manage to qualify from their group but managed to qualify for the World Cup.

Any rugby fans on this site?

apparently not :P

Well, I can't believe that England didn't get the tri. What did the ref see that the rest of the (rugby viewing) world didn't?

I dunno, I think his foot might have actually been out...

That would have changed things completely though if they had awarded the tri.

Thank god England didnt win at least.

Im a kiwi and was gutted that we didnt get any further (thank you Wayne Barnes, you managed to ref one side correctly XD) but if England had won they would have been unbearable.

The ref was right!

There is a chance that his knee may have just scraped the top of a blade of grass he lifted it up, that is as much as I could see, but it was 100% a try, that would have changed the whole match

The view was pretty bad and I'd say the televison match official might be able to zoom in or something.

These things happen though, tries awarded when there was forward pass etc.

I thought I heard the commentators say that the foot was definatly fine. That tri would have been great morale and it could have turnt the entire game around.

I laughed so hard when Montgomery (I think) got push into that camera, it was great.

Still, I think we came off better then what I assumed we would.

It wasn't a disgrace by any stretch of the imagination, we played well and it was a great contest, but that try was the turning point