Michael Vaughan

handed out those medals he was furious but what a day that was for sport as well yeah look it was incredible I think you know and for it to happen the way that it happened and you know going to extra time and then you know obviously golden balls at Johnny hitting that drop goal it was always made to be is it true that it was fed the wrong way or something no so he'd missed two off his left drop his off his left so then he decided to show off and hit one off his right to win it from 40 yeah

I mean, that's just, it's sort of annoying, isn't it?

Yeah.

I always feel sorry for Matt Dawson because he made that break.

And Dawson's generally one-on-one exceptionally good, and he didn't round the fullback.

Just imagine if Dawson round the fullback and he scored.

We'd never heard the end of it.

Suddenly the hero looks like Gollum from Lord of the Rings.

It's very different to Johnny Wilkinson, you know what I mean?

You can't let it down like that.

It was a good story.

But come here and beat Australia.

I know.

We were lucky at that time.

I always say that I had never lost to Australia going into that game.

So it was a weird sort of time of...

In 1999, obviously, we got drop-kicked out by Yanni De Beer in South Africa in the quarter-finals for our worst result ever in a World Cup.

And then, like anything after a World Cup, there was a separation.

You know, you have Ben Clarks, you have Victor Abogus, you have Gerry Guskerts, you have Fielder Glanvold.

all these guys sort of retired and we brought in this young group and we went on that run from 2000 where I'd only lost four times.