{"id":30911,"date":"2019-10-27T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=30911"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:35:23","slug":"all-british-final-dashed-as-springboks-end-wales-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/all-british-final-dashed-as-springboks-end-wales-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"All-British final dashed as Springboks end Wales campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Africa were triumphant in the Rugby World Cup semi-finals by defeating Wales 16-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It looked as if additional time might be the outcome, drawing 16-16 as the game reached the last ten minutes. Then fly-half Hanre Pollard broke the deadlock when he booted over a late penalty in the 76<sup>th<\/sup> minute, securing the victory at the International Stadium Yokohama.<\/p>\n<p>They will now go on to face England on Saturday 2 November at 09:00 (GMT) in Yokohama, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa have a perfect success rate in world cup finals, which has already been tested against England in 2007 &#8211; beating them 6-15. The Springboks also won on home turf in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>England have reached the final three times before this world cup, and despite being runners-up in 1991 and 2007, 2003 saw them lift the trophy after Johnny Wilkinson\u2019s iconic drop-goal.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Gatlin will coach his last game for Wales when they play New Zealand for third place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Words: Dan Branston Photo:\u00a0Photo by Hanson Lu, Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa were triumphant in the Rugby World Cup semi-finals by defeating Wales 16-19. It looked as if additional time might be the outcome, drawing 16-16 as the game reached the last ten minutes. Then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":30913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}