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England overcomes Samoa
by Claudia Sonea

Rugby World Cup is full of surprises, on Saturday at the Stade de la Beaujoire England succeeded to regain their position and get their campaign back on track, how the English coach said it. With a score of 44-22 the British team has more confidence and greater expectations for the up-coming match with Tonga in Paris after which the winner will get out of Pool A and face South Africa with whom England had their worst experience, their record World Cup defeat with 36-0. Unfortunately for Samoa they did not even made it for the eight place as they hoped, but the coach Michael Jones said it was not players fault who gave their best, only that the other team hang there though and proved to be a very good team. Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson managed to get on the second place in the list of the World Cup's all-time leading points-scorers ahead of Michael Lynagh with a record of 206 points, while the first place belongs to Scotland great Gavin Hastings with 227 points. Wilkinson, in this first World Cup match since the 2003 final, kicked 24 points. Also Martin Corry, caretaker England captain, after his side's lead had been in the second-half cut to just four points, scored two tries and Wing Paul Sackey brought England a bonus point for scoring four tries due to his last minute score. Samoa's Loki Crichton, playing at full-back in place of the injured Gavin Williams, made it harder for the British team with four penalties in the first half and another one in the beginning of the second half that was the first point. All in all, the Samoa team was inferior to England because only one player tried to give his best on the field. The other team was clearly more eager to win the game, therefore all the players run for bonus points. Stay connected to see what happens next.

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070923/tuk-rugbyu-wc2007-eng-sam-2c0ffe7_1.html

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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