Welsh rugby fans set off before 6am to arrive united in spirit and belief. And their faith took them all the way to a tall-drama winThis Rugby World Cup has been billing itself as “44 days of crazy”. Japan’s supreme insanity in defeating South Africa final Saturday set the tone. And for sheer frenzy it is tough to imagine that anything of the next five weeks will match the emotion of Twickenham on Saturday night. In a match in which the teams were hardly separated by more than one score,and were tied at 25 points each with six minutes to disappear, Dan Biggar, or the Welsh fly-half,slotted a penalty from the halfway line to win the match for Wales.
In doing they so went a long way to sealing their advance out of the “group of death” and into the tournament’s knockout rounds. For England to have any chance, Australia must be overcome in a week’s time.
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Source: theguardian.com