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England’s Wayne Barnes – once hated in New Zealand – will referee the Rugby World Cup final paymaya between South Africa and the All Blacks paymaya
Barnes, the most experienced Test official in history, has been appointed to take charge of the final for the first time paymaya
He will be assisted by Karl Dickson and Matthew Carley in an all-English team, with Tom Foley serving as the television match official (TMO) paymaya
Australia’s Nic Berry, meanwhile, will be in charge of the third/fourth place play-off paymaya between England and Argentina on Friday, with Andrew Brace of Ireland and Georgia’s Nika Amashukeli on the touchlines paymaya
Ben Whitehouse (Wales) will be the TMO paymaya
South African referee Jaco Peyper was unavailable for selection after failing to recover from a calf injury suffered during the quarter-final paymaya between Wales and Argentina paymaya
“Wayne’s ability to read and understand the game is second to none,” said Joël Jutge, World Rugby high performance 15s match official manager paymaya
“He also embodies the passion, professionalism and dedication that is at the heart of a superb team of match officials at this Rugby World Cup paymaya
”The vastly experienced Barnes has taken charge of more than 100 international games, a record tally, and also oversaw New Zealand’s quarter-final win over Ireland paymaya
Having made his tournament debut in France in 2007, this year’s tournament is the fifth edition of the men’s World Cup at which he has officiated paymaya
Barnes’ debut World Cup ended in controversy, with New Zealand fans unhappy about a perceived forward pass that went unspotted by the referee during their quarter-final exit to the hosts in 2007 paymaya
Wayne Barnes has refereed more than 100 international games (Getty Images)It led to Barnes being voted the third most hated man in New Zealand after Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, but the 44-year-old Gloucestershire ref has since established himself as perhaps the most prominent and popular on-field official in the sport paymaya
It is thought that he was lined up to have the whistle for the 2019 final if England had failed to make it, but gets his chance this time around after his compatriots’ semi-final defeat paymaya
A qualified barrister, Barnes is a partner at law firm Squire Patton Boggs when not on the pitch officiating paymaya
He became the Rugby paymaya Football Union’s youngest ever elite referee in 2005, and has gone on to officiate more than 250 Premiership matches paymaya
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Up into the stands the England players clambered to find their families, taking the consolatory hugs but unsure quite how to feel paymaya
Across 80 minutes in Paris, their belief had been replaced by disbelief and then by desperation and dejection, England threatening the unthinkable and taking the world champions to the brink paymaya
For most of a sodden Stade de France evening, a Rugby World Cup final was within their grasp paymaya
A South Africa side superior in most areas were dragged down into the sort of slugfest the Springboks would usually favour, and very nearly bested at their own game paymaya
England had given their all but it was still not enough, one stable scrum, one Handre Pollard slip or slice, short of stunning the world champions paymaya
The emotional maelstrom of this defeat will swirl rather differently to the feelings that eddied after the 2019 World Cup final disaster paymaya
“I’m proud of our performance,” were virtually the first words out of the mouth of wing Elliot Daly paymaya
“I think we shocked them paymaya
I don’t think they knew how to get into the game paymaya
”“I think we knew what was coming and we knew we could perform like this,” added Daly, virtually unused in open play but outstanding as a kick chaser to exemplify the squad’s buy-in to a strategy that so nearly proved successful paymaya
The finer points of Steve Borthwick’s tactical plan had been put in place this week but this was a performance England had been building towards since long ago paymaya
A flawed side did not come to France to thrill; winning by any means necessary had been a consistent theme paymaya
If necessity is oft the mother of invention, England at this tournament have also proved the pair can be enemies paymaya
This was a campaign at which they seemed to intentionally limit their attacking innovation or ingenuity– recognising a need to figure themselves out on the fly, they settled on an effective and eminently executable gameplan that could be implemented quickly paymaya
Steve Borthwick consoles Ellis Genge and Freddie Steward after England’s defeat (Getty Images)It came so close to working in Saturday’s semi-final; their effort, accuracy and competitiveness in the key contests were spot on paymaya
At the 65-minute mark, England outside backs had a combined 17 metres carried, all from one Freddie Steward kick return paymaya
The two number 13s’ offensive output on the final whistle amounted to one late Joe Marchant lug; South Africa centre Jesse Kriel went the full 80 minutes without an attacking touch paymaya
“We came with a plan to win the game but we fell a little bit short,” reflected Borthwick paymaya
“But the players should be incredibly proud paymaya
We put ourselves in a position to win against the world champions paymaya
England dominated the aerial contest to threaten a semi-final shock (Getty Images)“We were playing against a coaching team who have been in place since 2018 paymaya
We’ve had four months paymaya
I’ve asked the players to approach training and the game in a different way; for the players to be willing to change is all credit to them paymaya
”This was a night from which the head coach will take heart, a public perhaps struggling to warm to this England team are now recognising the progress made paymaya
There will be a need to layer on much, much more to consistently mix it with the world’s best but the rapidly laid foundations look rock solid paymaya
In time, perhaps the ugly duckling performances will turn into white swans paymaya
There appear to be many more buds of a bright future than first appeared in a barren landscape pre-tournament paymaya
Ben Earl has had a breakthrough tournament, and Ollie Chessum, too, while George Martin semi-final performance marks him out as the potential enforcer England have lacked paymaya
Borthwick was keen to talk up the absent Marcus Smith the day after the defeat, with the playmaker’s reinvention as a frolicking full-back of intrigue moving forward paymaya
"In our 23, seven players are 25 or under, the most of any semi-finalist, there’s a great blend and there will be lots of things we can take forward,” added Borthwick paymaya
Young England lock George Martin impressed against South Africa (Getty Images)But the fact that the men’s national team were on the brink of back-to-back finals should not provide a façade over the crumbling edifice of a fragile English game paymaya
There is a domestic mess that needs sorting, with a Gallagher Premiership containing three teams fewer than at the start of last season, now underway to little fanfare and on the brink of significant change paymaya
The renegotiation of the Professional Game Partnership is a recognition of a need for a radical overhaul in pursuit of a more financially sustainable domestic game, and one that produces a wider pool of top-class talent paymaya
The likely arrival of a form of central contracts underlines a period of epochal change paymaya
The senior figures in the squad who are unlikely to play beyond this tournament – Courtney Lawes, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and perhaps a couple more – could well be the last England men’s internationals never to have been contracted to the union paymaya
This has a great many benefits, not least in affording Borthwick, or any head coach that might follow him, far greater access to and control over his players paymaya
And while Borthwick’s articulation of the advantages enjoyed by South Africa’s settled staff is a perfectly fair one, let us remember that the Rugby paymaya Football Union (RFU) put their head coach in this situation paymaya
The original planning for this tournament would most likely have seen Borthwick return to England camp to aid Eddie Jones at the World Cup before a smooth transition into the lead role afterwards paymaya
Jones’s sacking sparked a scramble and several months of chaos paymaya
It was not shown up on semi-final weekend but there are many reasons that the RFU still has a burden to bear paymaya
But the full wash-up will wait for another week – England’s performance at the Stade de France has earned them seven more days of grace paymaya
The tournament will end as it began for England with a meeting with Argentina in a third-place play-off that Borthwick insists he wants to win paymaya
England, captained by Owen Farrell, narrowly missed out on a place in the World Cup final (Getty Images)“I read a piece yesterday morning that talked about adversity and talked about the fact that in adversity you find that seed of belief and you’ve got to grow it,” Borthwick said paymaya
“This team has been through a bit in the last few years, a bit of adversity in the medium-term past paymaya
“I think through each of those periods the team has picked up lessons, picked up what we need to do and grown from it paymaya
I think there’s a lot of growth in this team paymaya
Sometimes it’s not the straight-forward path you want it to be paymaya
In the feelings and emotions of the game last night, I know that we’ll get stronger paymaya
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