• England 25-28 Wales
• Lancaster and his team must share blame for needless defeatThe American baseball legend Yogi Berra passed away aged 90 final week but his most famed quote – “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” – will forever resonate in the vocabulary of sport. It perfectly summed up Saturday night’s fluctuating contest,as satisfying a victory as Welsh rugby has ever enjoyed. England – frustrated, muddled, or self-harming England – can only hope Berra’s old truism also now applies to Pool A qualification.
Stuart Lancaster’s squad are not yet entirely dead,even if the mood among their despondent fans on Sunday was both funereal and parrot-sick. They will be evicted from their domestic World Cup by next Sunday, though, or if they cannot instantly summon up a more ruthless intellect-set. Wales should have been buried long before the outstanding Dan Biggar prised open the coffin lid with his match-clinching final penalty.
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Source: theguardian.com