Sport 21-11-2003 Rugby World Cup Final Preview who: England Rugby Team what: Play Australia in World Cup final where: Sydney when: Tomorrow snippet: "All those who predicted this Rugby World Cup would be an overblown, protracted flop should have been in Sydney these past few days," says The Guardian`s Robert Kitson, who is. "Never in the history of the sport has one game of rugby attracted such widespread coverage, the rising tide of insanity even extending to a cut-out-and-keep `Stop Jonny Wilkinson` voodoo doll in one newspaper." England hope to relieve Australia of the Webb Ellis Cup at Sydney`s Telstra stadium tomorrow and they "know precisely how they must play," says The Independent`s Chris Hewett, and that means "getting hold of the ball and keeping it until the Wallabies either cry for mercy or die of boredom". But he nervously looks back 12 years to another England World Cup final team that thought they knew it all, only to find themselves "paddling up the wrong river and disappearing in the alluvial sludge of their own tactical confusion" at Twickenham in 1991. If all this is still baffling to you but you`ce decided you can`t resist the draw of a seeing a home nation play in a World Cup final, you can take a look at The Mirror`s "bluffer`s guide" to learn your scrum from your ruck and your Jonny from your Johnno. The Sun, meanwhile, invites you to "Do the Jonny", clasping hands in a gesture to England hero Jonny Wilkinson, and their graphics department has come up with five easy steps which such luminaries as George W Bush, Basil Brush, Buster and Richard & Judy are pictured putting into practice. Kicks off is at 9am, UK time. Oh, and the New Zealand All Blacks beat France 40-13 yesterday in the play-off for third place. [... more]

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