And it's going Springbok again! In 2023. (FLAWLESS! Pressure? What pressure! And the World Cup goes the way of South Africa again! WHAT. A. FINAL. For the 4th time in the tournament's 36 year history, South Africa have won the World Cup! By the barest of margins! By the barest of all margins!) South Africa, for the 4th time ever! Is still champion! Of the world! World Cup for South Africa! A hard fought win, by 1 point. South Africa win the World Cup again, it's a hard fought win, they win by 1 point. Absolute ecstasy for South Africa! Agony, agony for New Zealand! Rugby's most treasured prize, the William Webb Ellis cup, stays in South Africa! South Africa, champions of the world! Again...at last...& a nation will party all night long. And South Africa win the World Cup again! For the 4th time...& in front of 80,000 people, they upstaged the All Blacks team. It's over! Triumph for the rainbow nation...again, heartache, for the men in black. But it's over! It's over! It's a 4th Rugby World Cup, for South Africa!
Well, the All Blacks (Who had Shannon Frizell yellow carded for an illegal contact to the limb area on Bongi Mbonambi then All Blacks captain Sam Cane was on the recieving end by getting also yellow carded which was changed it into a red according to the bunker for an illegal high tackle on Springbok centre Jesse Kriel in which he becomes the first man in history to be sent off in a Rugby World Cup final, & it must've been our discipline which must've been lacking, cost us of winning the World Cup (And what a disappointing end for the All Blacks, what a match for our viewers right around the world) have suffered a World Cup heartbreak as we had blown the opportunity to win a 4th Rugby World Cup after a 1 point defeat in the final in the pinnacle of international rugby against the resilient but dominant Springboks side (Who won all of their Rugby World Cup knockout games last year by less than a single point) led by their inspirational leader of Siya Kolisi (Who becomes the 2nd man to lift the Webb Ellis cup twice after Richie McCaw in 2015, but I wonder the headlines would say: AB'S HEARTBROKEN IN WORLD CUP FINAL AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA or probably more like: DOMINANT SPRINGBOKS CRUSH NEW ZEALAND TO RETAIN RWC, or more appropriately: KOLISI LED BOKS REMAIN BEST IN THE RUGBY WORLD, & especially: ALL BLACKS FALTER IN RWC FINAL, COACH SAY & then another headline that probably says: KOLISI'S BOYS BRING THE WEBB ELLIS CUP HOME, AGAIN, & there's another one, this time in French: AFRIQUE DU SUD, CHAMPION DU MONDE EN RUGBY, or more likely: THE CHAMPIONS, STILL REMAIN CHAMPS) who win their record breaking but unprecedented 4th RWC championship & become the 2nd side to retain the William Webb Ellis cup (And they had to overcome 2 yellow cards to win the final, first by captain Kolisi (Who is now a 2 time Rugby World Cup winning captain just like our own Richie McCaw who did it in 2011 & 2015, but can any team like the All Blacks chase down & end the Springboks (First it was Francois Pienaar in 1995 as the winning skipper for the Boks, followed by John Smit in 2007 & Kolisi not once but twice now in 2019 & last year) quest for a historic first ever threepeat in Australia in 2027 & dominate the team of the 2020's decade just like England did that against the AB's in 2019 in the semifinal? We will see), then Cheslin Kolbe), so hard luck fellas out there today (And it hurts most Kiwis but they'll be gutted that we missed out on that occasion) because maybe 2027 will be our year of lifting the World Cup (And bring on the Razor era by the way but it was supposed to be our year last year, but that didn't happen when most people predicted that South Africa is going to retain the Rugby World Cup, & they did), so let's hope things will change by turning it around (And I mean what went wrong for the All Blacks to lose a final like this? Maybe it's the officiating as well as our discipline that hurts therefore costing our chance of winning our 4th World Cup crown after Cane went off & we were down to 14 players for the remainder of the game so I gave up watching meaning that I decided to move on from my life but hey, that was disappointing about our final heartbreak against the best South African side ever coached by Jacques Nienaber (4th different South African coach to win a World Cup after the late Kitch Christie in 1995, then Jake White in 2007 & former player Rassie Erasmus in 2019 (And after the 2019 success that many people say that Nienaber would be the next successful South African rugby coach, & they did by pulling it off, not only it was Kolisi again as he is still Head of the Table in the rugby world this year when he provided the Lionel Messi moment when Messi captained Argentina to become champion of the world for the first time since 1986 as they prevailed over France on penalties in the final at the 2022 Football World Cup & finally become a World Cup winning player as well as being the most recent Football World Cup winning skipper, then the Roman Reigns moment at Wrestlemania 39 when Reigns (Who was accompanied by his manager Paul Heyman & his Bloodline tag team stablemate Solo Sikoa) won against 'The American Nightmare' Cody Rhodes to retain the Unidsputed WWE Universal Championship, then the Alex Palou moment when Palou beat our own New Zealander Scott Dixon to regain the Indycar title in Portland by clinching it with one race to spare & also, the Max Verstappen moment when Verstappen successfully defended the Formula 1 World Championship crown by clinching it at the Qatar Grand Prix sprint race which was won by an Australian driving for McLaren, Oscar Piastri, as well as his status as the self-proclaimed rugby god, remains intact when the Boks had triumphed at the RWC once more) because it was their day, but I will still keep following the rugby & I always back the All Blacks because I vow loyalty to them).
And here are the other results from the 2023 Cricket World Cup that have just come in (And that is the first time I'll be doing other results of the World Cup, this time in the cricket):
New Zealand 288/6 (50)
Afghanistan 139 (34.4)
NZ won by 149 runs
Bangladesh 256/8 (50)
India 261/3 (41.3)
IND won by 7 wickets (51 balls left)
Australia 367/9 (50)
Pakistan 305 (45.3)
AUS won by 62 runs
Netherlands 262 (49.4)
Sri Lanka 263/5 (48.2)
SL won by 5 wickets (10 balls left)
New Zealand 273 (50)
India 274/6 (48)
IND won by 4 wickets (12 balls left)
Pakistan 282/7 (50)
Afghanistan 286/2 (49)
AFG won by 8 wickets (6 balls left)
South Africa 382/5 (50)
Bangladesh 233 (46.4)
SA won by 149 runs
Australia 399/8 (50)
Netherlands 90 (21)
AUS won by 309 runs
England 156 (33.2)
Sri Lanka 160/2 (25.4)
SL won by 8 wickets
Pakistan 270 (46.4)
South Africa 271/9 (47.2)
SA won by 1 wicket (16 balls left)
Australia 388 (49.2)
New Zealand 383/9 (50)
AUS won by 5 runs
Netherlands 229 (50)
Bangladesh 142 (42.2)
NED won by 87 runs
India 229/9 (50)
England 129 (34.5)
IND won by 100 runs
Sri Lanka 241 (49.3)
Afghanistan 242/3 (45.2)
AFG won by 7 wickets (28 balls left)
& Bangladesh 204 (45.1)
Pakistan 205/3 (32.3)
PAK won by 7 wickets
So that is my 525th blog of the year 2024 (MMXXIV) & my 1st of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.
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