2003 Rugby World Cup Final - Extended Highlights

Watch extended highlights of the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final as England took on Australia in Sydney.
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[@JimmyNDriver]

What a game! Best sporting moment of my life personally, as an Englishman. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏉

[@thailandwild4897]

Yes, I think so for me too.... .and in the middle of my son's fourth birthday party.... a very special day.

[@phyllishundredfarts1345]

Ar chuir éinne ceist?

[@RugbyPass81]

​@@phyllishundredfarts1345Nân n¯ænne marvel sê [Irish] fricca ungemêde ofer ednîwe [Zealand]

[@RugbyPass81]

​​@@phyllishundredfarts1345Also, speaking as a Kiwi, so not even English for crying out loud, I'd like to say what an unsporting prick you are for that comment. The England team of 2003 won a great game against our neighbours, the Aussies, so for you to come and disparage a fan for his comment with an immature comment in Irish (by the way, my original comment was in English, old English), just shows what kind of character you are. I've been playing rugby since I was 4 years old, we are born with a rugby ball in our hands over here in the NZ, still playing now at 42 - 7 openside flanker - in Welly (sorry, Wellington) and the sportsmanship is likely the part of the game that keeps me in it most, it's what I love most about it and people like you, who have none, you're not a rugby fan, you're the worst fringe part of my sport. Now crawl back under whatever stone you came out from beneath. Oh, hope you enjoyed the lesson we taught your boys yesterday? Ireland choked again. Not nice when someone disparages your national team or it's fans, is it? Luckily most Irish fans aren't as pathetic as you and are a great, friendly and sporting bunch of guys n gals. God it annoys me, so called 'rugby fans' like you. No wonder a lot of the natives here in Welly dislike the Irish so much - likely due to the slaughter at the hands of Irish settlers they were met upon with.

[@leiholani9181]

One of the most exciting finals ever, I was rooting for the Wallabies but respects to England and yes the legend himself Jonny Wilkinson.

[@RestorationsFOD]

@J G your point is?/

[@Clipd_rugby]

Yeah

[@Clipd_rugby]

If you are going to prefer football, you may as well support a decent team. And if rugby is so bad, why are you watching this video

[@RugbyPass81]

​@@JG-bw6luBoring. Rugby all the way

[@Randomness012]

@@JG-bw6lu As a massive football fan, literally no one asked. Just enjoy this epic moment in an epic sport. Oddball

[@johnquinn4747]

Irish fan here that’s still the best drop goal ever took in rugby history pressure time all out guts👌

[@willconnor5873]

you all prolly dont care but does anyone know a method to get back into an Instagram account? I somehow lost the account password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me

[@paulcullen5712]

@Will Connor instablaster =)

[@Will.Flavell]

I have a question here when will Ireland will their first quarter final match?

[@40yearoldvirgil15]

@J G OK

[@tonyjlorns1727]

Johnny Sexton would of been proud of it John 😊

[@Brucemcleod2345]

As a Kiwi supporter, this is the first time in my life that I was supporting England. Dawson, Dallaglio, Robinson, Johnson and Wilkinson - legends.

[@diannekeightley9443]

One of the All time great sides. England were "genuine" World champs.

[@paddyanglais91]

27:08 respect between the two captains and putting rivalry aside 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺

[@Salesiable]

Absolutely both George Gregan and Martin Johnson are both absolute legends of Rugby Union and their respective teams

[@ivorbiggun710]

Jesus. I'm nearly as nervous watching this now as I was 16 years ago.

[@peterflynn7083]

Live down the road from robinson Huddersfield West Yorkshire great guy and player

[@robroy4663]

One of the best days of my life. As to the 3 other finals, sheer misery!!

[@martinluke9470]

Nice to see some of the Australian supporters clapping at the end. True rugby fans.

[@nickthefox72]

One of the best sides ever. Up there with some greats for sure

[@katie2295]

England may never end up with a team as good as this again. Martin Johnson lead as the best captain the country has ever seen. Jonny Wilkinson never faltered under pressure. Lawrence Dallaglio, the big man who was deceptively fast. The fast sprinting Jason Robinson. Matt Dawson’s grit. I could go on and on…

[@theoutlaw5806]

Add Will Greenwood to your list

[@katie2295]

@@theoutlaw5806 excellent shout. To be honest, I could have found a sentence for every member of that team! Will Greenwood had an incredible match that day

[@autumnleaves2766]

Always a pleasure to see this. England had such a great team at that time and Wilkinson was just phenomenal. If only our current team were anything like as good but they are way off the class of 2003.

[@murdoch691]

I want to add this as an Englishman the kick from flattley to take it to extra time was pure guts imagine the pressure on that guys shoulders truly amazing but we won because we had that killer instinct

[@galdessa1]

Johnson gave away a stupid last min penalty to let that happen.

[@syc9675]

A great pleasure of watching the 2003 rugby World Cup final. It was a close match between these two nations.

[@monkey281059]

One of the best days of my life

[@proudkiwi7641]

Clive woodwoods face after that drop goal man. That must have been the longest few seconds ever for him

[@kevinstoneham1245]

I know incredible. Knowing you are on the edge of winning the WC and after all the effort that had gone into it.

[@kevinstoneham1245]

I saw Sir Clive in the Lords Tavern near Lords a few months back. I gave him a quick look and just thought - what a guy.

[@manarechoma8112]

Scrums were brutal back then..

[@chezwickcheese139]

Rugby was just so much better in the late 90s and early 2000s. I don't what it was about it but it had a much higher tempo, more intensity and less fluffing around. Glad I was able to play and watch rugby in it's prime.

[@oscarself2911]

You’d never get away with any of this in today’s game amazing to see how it has changed

[@mattey456]

Games gone soft too

[@michaeldodds3316]

108 years in the making,well done john..

[@Alex-mj5dv]

Jason Robinson. What a player. In both codes. Electric. All time great.

[@michaelsleftfoot352]

Watching this 2021 and makes you realise just how much the game has moved on in last 18years..

[@cpitney]

12:12 Gotta love Gregan, gets put down hard and just gets straight back up.

[@hippito77]

Winning against that referee makes waking up at 5am worth watching

[@badabing8884]

Happy memories. Easily the most dramatic World Cup final so far.

[@Salesiable]

Without a doubt both Australia 🇦🇺 and England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 played an absolute instant classic Final. They both enjoyed the a classic Final

[@TBrl8]

Wilkinson is an absolute legend.

[@bigirwantegeka8962]

I have been trying to figure out why Wilkinson was picking up grass before each kick of his and it just hit me that it would show him the wind direction before he kicked and he’d do it like 2 times more before confirming and kicking off!! Simply genius 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@santinotupou9127]

Only team in europe win rugby world cup one of greatest world cup finlas all time

[@Argomis]

Only team in the whole top half of the world

[@JG-wu7nx]

To defeat the aussies was amazing they are tough

[@green856w]

Twenty years ago, this year. Will we ever see another team as good as the 2003 team?

[@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart]

We will not end up like our football team, we will raise that Webb Ellis cup once more in 2023 one day rugby will be England’s top sport

[@mattey456]

It just won’t be though

[@starkers1997]

12 years prior to this match, the 2 sides met in the 1991 RWC Final at Twickenham. The Wallabies prevailed on English soil. For England, this was the ultimate way to get their revenge; revenge that had been coming for 12 years: A role reversal from 1991, except this would become (and still is) the only RWC Final to go to extra time. Sydney being the venue, the rest is history…

[@rolandzarka5191]

the best English team all of time (From memory of French).

[@jerocamp]

I never forget that game!

[@marlecmarine5393]

The best world cup final of all time, 120 minutes full of drama............

[@galdessa1]

Don,t you mean 100 minutes?

[@simonrae3048]

I love this game!!2 Great teams in Oz. Johnyeeeeeeeeee

[@LMostazo]

Great game. Hope Argentina will win a World Cup one day. 🇦🇷🐆🇦🇷

[@leiholani9181]

The way theyre playing if they keep improving, Argentina is definitely going to win a world cup.

[@Will.Flavell]

They have a long way to go they haven’t won a game against New Zealand yet

[@Lokenimanu]

Soon bro soon

[@cmac_415]

@@Will.Flavell they have now lol good on Argentinia! 🙌🏽

[@RugbyPass81]

After their performance against Wales yesterday, I believe they have it in them to win a RWC sooner rather than later. I'm a Kiwi myself but look, your lads, the Pumas, they're a great team, so keep pulling for your boys because they're fully deserving. To be fair, it's always better at the world cup when we have teams such as Argentina, England, Ireland etc at their strongest, it makes the tournament a spectacle to behold and as someone who has been playing rugby all my life (number 7, openside flanker), I fall in love with the sport all over again at each world cup.

[@sibuleleful]

Great Final!

[@kaeso101]

Ngl seeing the English celebrate as UB40 swing low swing chariot played in the background is a vibe ❤

[@newmanj8690]

Australian kicks the ball into touch... *Every England forward* : Wait, what do we do now?

[@Rover200Power]

Anyone else looking forward to Saturday?

[@NATObait]

Remember this game for the Referee who brought his 3/10 skills to a final and almost wrecked the game. Definitely wasn't as good as the players that shared the pitch.

[@FrankNstyn]

What a team!!

[@seasets]

Wilco-Dilo! Bloody good 👍

[@marynorth7988]

Well due to dire tv over the festive season ...have watched all the games England played up to the 2003 world cup final ! AWESOME......! What an incredible performance by both sides ! Shame there had to be a losing side..........I LIE ...yeah we won !!

[@anafetuuaho5925]

00:14 where is David Kirk? He was the first one to lift the gold cup as the all blacks were the first to win it.

[@cgpurple8989]

Jeez 18 years ago

[@TheVice57]

england and australia was just too strong back then

[@jossiesteenkamp9317]

Very good game

[@tonywoodham3760]

Good job the ref was playing for the Aussies.

[@martinhorsfield5514]

The ref was atrocious this game, we had to be at our absolute best to beat him, the crowd and the wallabies

[@Leifr952]

Criticising the ref? Thought rugby was all about respect for the officials? 🤔

[@soddof7972]

@@Leifr952 when playing yes but all supporters will criticise decisions. How this ref could ever conceive that England were infringing at scrums when they were marching the aussies backwards is laughable.

[@Leifr952]

@@soddof7972 Right. But why preach respect for the ref when it knowingly isn't universally practised within the game? If players do it then why not the supporters?

[@europa1916]

Old good days:(

[@Will.Flavell]

It’s been 17 years the wallabies lost The Rugby World Cup and the Bledisloe Cup

[@Saddamuel]

@22:39 ENGLAND!

[@peteharry351]

Without the refs help at the scrum, the marsupials would never have been in this game.

[@theoutlaw5806]

​@@johnshults100%

[@annekeruben3238]

Many Aussies clapping, nice to see

[@kevinstoneham1245]

The comment at 27.46 sums it up and if the England football team are going to win a major tournament they need to be the same and then they will 29:41 win the WC - just!

[@brian310770]

So why do people start something with the end. What a joke.

[@MisterPolitical1]

I went England but the 2003 wallabies were better than the 2011, 2015 & 2019 squads save it for 2007

[@theoutlaw5806]

The England victory really did mask the referee's incredibly poor (and somewhat biased) performance.

[@richcastle6796]

Tragic to hear Steve Thompson can’t remember a thing about the game😬😩

[@shadowsix7381]

This funking adio

[@leeturton9254]

That referee very nearly screwed England over... England clearly the more dominant team in the scrum and breakdown but the ref seemed intent on making it a close game... but the mark of a truly great team is they can adapt to anything.. overcome anything even the ref... and they did

[@theoutlaw5806]

Oh absolutely!! Yet no one mentions this... England winning the World Cup really masked Andre Watson's performance. He is either being incredibly insubordinate or (my opinion) completely biased. He very nearly cost us our victory.

[@galdessa1]

@@theoutlaw5806 Australia was at home, it happens all the time in most sports.

[@dedede9664]

7:10 cohen actually lashes out and kicks Larkham in the face. check it out

[@theoutlaw5806]

Nah, not enough conviction or evidence to suggest it actually was foul play. The ref that day was truly awful. In fact I'm inclined to call bias here.

[@Newell_lofts]

Anyone spot a familiar face at 15:35?

[@cameronjeffrey9003]

What about 1995

[@karenrumney5210]

Brighton Miracle ❤️

[@matthewbruveris680]

I watched the original game and it was great.....Watching the game again nearly 20 years later i never realised the hidden gem at 17:52 ...possibly one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen....top centre.

[@tripplekekkz2825]

You need glasses she’s butters

[@theoutlaw5806]

​@@tripplekekkz2825my thoughts exactly 😂

[@vebesese5632]

Even as a middle-aged man, I get a little choked-up watching this. One of the greatest sporting teams-of any sport-of all-time. Up there with the glorious Austrlian cricketers of the mid-nineties. I often come to watch these gubbins to escape the nausea of our broken world.

[@Nigel-wu5lj]

Talk about a ref with half his brain out for Aus.

[@en379l]

Shame our footballers don't show the same respect for refferies and opponents.

[@san4581]

黄金の両足Wilkinson

[@jondoe1832]

I love England and love the blood,sweat tears those blokes put in for us the Country and fans but guess what? after learning about Steve Thompson early onset I hate to say it but that lads 42 years old and now talks about what rugby has taken away from him, things have gotta change and stop treating the players as fighting dogs cos thats exactly what they are doing something must change otherwise lots more young men and women will end up not knowing their families cos of the extensive contact training where the brain i like a jelly being smashed around their skulls yet I don’t want padding and helmets cos it would kill the game and make us look daft and stupid like those pricks in the States, big discussion is desperately needed. Steve.

[@peterkane1591]

Jonny changed rugby...Carter was one if the men who copied jonnys work ethic and then became such a class talent...but i think the trend setter Jonny was the best.

[@razlotan7504]

What’s the point of starting the video with the result?

[@lylekruger4864]

Larkham was pretty good eh!

[@sundanceuk]

Counts for trying to sell me a shelf google phone. Counts every one of you.

[@tristanmaclennan2989]

Every time you show England winning the World Cup in 2003, it just reminds me of how many times they lost the World Cup, and in their own World Cup in 2015, they didn't get out of the pool stages. England has never been a threat to the Southern Hemisphere teams and never will be, it just shows money cannot buy them a win. LOL

[@svresh]

Everyone talks about how big Wilkinson’s testicular fortitude was to make that kick, and its absolutely true. But not enough people talk about how big Dawson’s balls are for thinking “I need to run this to get Johnny in a better position for the kick” One wrong move and he’d have cost them BIG

[@theoutlaw5806]

Oh I whole heartedly agree. I've said this many times. For me personally both Dawson & Greenwood's subtle actions go unnoticed but those who see these acts of play understand just how pivotal they are to winning. High risk to high reward.

[@wallywest9257]

6:14 Never realised that the english player kicked larkham in the face and split is lip open. It was a fair penalty to England for Larkham holding onto the player, but then it should've been a reverse penalty for for kicking him in the head with malice intent. In todays rugby thats a red card lol, back then maybe just a yellow.

[@galdessa1]

And what about the Aussie head tackles, not allowed these days.

[@gamestation9437]

Why did Australia kick it out at the end with 2 minutes to go you dont want to kick it out so England can win the line out then kick for goal, Why not just run it and run down the clock maybe even get a try or drop goal yourself but no 30 seconds left they kick it out WHY ? that's how England got the ball back !!!! Run the ball untill the the end ,

[@DavidMartin-ne8jw]

I've always thought what was Matt Rogers thinking kicking in to touch

[@soddof7972]

Because tactically an opposition lineout on halfway is better than open play on your goal line. One mistake "running the clock down" and you're losing.

[@40yearoldvirgil15]

@@soddof7972 could of broke the line and ran it up to the half way as well though. I agree with OP. Mistake in my book.

[@leeturton9254]

Rogers?...did you see his face after he kicked it out?...he knew straight away he'd messed up😂

[@verinagrey2809]

Lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllĺlllllllllllĺlllllllllllllllll!!

[@killakilla9203]

12:05 red card if this happen these days , Rugby's gone soft

[@bofadestheosphilus7192]

🤡😂😂

[@kazumakiryu3397]

I’m Aussie but went for England or Atleast my dad did I was in his sack 💀💀💀💀

[@MeanAzz_13]

OMG LOOK NORTH FANS!! IT'S YOUR ONE N ONLY WORLD CUP!! HIP HIP.....??

[@leeturton9254]

Grow up ffs

[@MeanAzz_13]

@@leeturton9254 looks like No 9 is coming our way 🤧🤧🥴🥴 🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆 🏆

[@nofyou5182]

I still maintain this was rigged for Australia to win (with the scrums in the second half) but England were so good they still won. Andre Watson- how much did you get?

[@brodieritete7568]

Poms living in the past

[@benvaughan3392]

aus isnt doing great atm lets be honest

[@gazza1196]

If it wasn’t for our past you wouldn’t exist sport

[@theoutlaw5806]

Aussies living with no past 😅

[@SNOK1986]

British commentary was better for the final.

[@korl8524]

1000th like hehe

[@sospan123]

😴😴😴,, looks like 2003 rugby world cup final will end up like like the 1966 football world cup final🤔.... we thought it was all over , but it never will be!! 🙄😂😂

[@unitedinstinct2685]

wtf there 6-6-6 likes

[@lifeOFzeff]

These ads suck

[@anafetuuaho5925]

1st

[@hippito77]

A fly half who wears forward protection and hasn't the bottle to take an important kick, letting someone named after a British karaoke tribute act instead - Larkham ain't no Jonny.

[@MeanAzz_13]

Johnny ain't no *CARTER*

[@theoutlaw5806]

​@@MeanAzz_13read what Carter says about Wilko in his autobiography

[@MeanAzz_13]

@@theoutlaw5806 and? That's just respect! Same as Wilko contributing his kicking inspiration to the great A.B *Grant Fox.*

[@maciuchrissakealevu2054]

Hopefully this is the only World Cup they will win.

[@NZAnimeManga]

Why? Salty much...

[@santinotupou9127]

I won't say that if I where you england has good chance win this year world cup

[@paddyanglais91]

Why the hate?

[@santinotupou9127]

@@paddyanglais91 he 🇫🇯 don't know what he has against england but he must be 🇦🇺 fan or 🇫🇷 fan those are 2 team that england has rivial with

[@SpeccyHorace]

Haha, we English have learned to live for the hatred and bitterness that comes from everywhere, it keeps us relevant with no effort needed by us and in some cases even helps us to remember some countries exist.

[@richardanthonygilbey]

A great match, but on the isles you have to go to Ireland to get opportunities for your children. plus england shouldnt be beating australia with a last gasp dirty kick, they have to come out in the middle of the park and prove they can play. And selection has to be on merit not politics, as in England there is no reward for achievement only squealing thumb snapping jealousy whilst england and scotland do deals under the act of the unions to limit talented england players whom scotland have become prehistorically jealous of. In England your more likely to hear them say "we have to shag his bird to get revenge for that match" you never hear "we should go home and practice more till were as good as them". Yes no doubt about it if you wanna be a rugger player head to Ireland.

[@dannycourtis]

What did I just read :D "last gasp dirty kick" made me chuckle. Wtf are you on about you plum.

[@theoutlaw5806]

​@@dannycourtis😂 the muppet has lost his way home. Fraggle rock is that way 👈