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alpha · Messaggio da **alpha** » 4 feb 2005, 13:35

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 Wales vs England: 1988-2004
 Friday February 04 2005
 England strikes back
 England and Wales played 19 times in this period, England won 15 times, Wales four times. No matches were drawn.
 
 
 This enabled England to head Wales in the over all results. The two teams have played 112 times. Twelve matches have been drawn. England have now won 51 times, Wales 49 times. It is that close.
 
 6 February 1988: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 Wales went to Twickenham intent on running. They dropped kicker Paul Thorburn for runner Anthony Clement who had never played fullback before. There were four players in the Welsh side who would normally be regarded as flyhalves - Clement, Bleddyn Bowen, Mark Ring and Jonathan Davies who actually played flyhalf.
 
 Wales scored two sensational tries and won 11-3.
 
 At the age of 31 Phil May made his debut for Wales.
 
 18 March 1989: This match was played at National Stadium, Cardiff
 
 England were unbeaten, Wales had not won a match and it was the last match of the Five Nations.
 
 It rained, Robert Norster ruled the line-outs, Robert Jones controlled the game from scrumhalf, and Mike Hall scored the only try of the match. Wales won 12-9.
 
 The try was not without controversy. Rory Underwood passed back to Jon Webb. The pass went astray, and Underwood and Hall raced for the ball, sliding after it.
 
 There had been much controversy the previous year when the Welsh selectors had dropped Paul Thorburn. The Western Mail conducted a poll to see which of Paul Thorburn or Anthony Clement should be fullback. Wales voted 65%-35% in favour of Thorburn who was back in this match - and captain of Wales. Vox populi?
 
 17 February 1990: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 The English pack rode roughshod over the Welsh pack and England ran in four tries. England thrashed Wales 34-6.
 
 An indication of England\'s forward dominance is in the scrum statistic. Wales won just three scrums in the whole match. This was the first of many big wins for England in the rest of this period.
 
 Rory Underwood scored two tries. For one he ran over 70 metres.
 
 The Welsh coach John Ryan resigned after the match.
 
 19 January 1991: This match was played at National Stadium, Cardiff
 
 Simon Hodgkinson surpassed Rob Andrews by kicking seven penalty goals, a world record. England won 25-6 and there was just one try in the match, scored for England by robust Mike Teague.
 
 England had last won in Cardiff in 1963.
 
 Paul Thorburn missed four kicks at goal and then gave the kicking duties to a debutant - Neil Jenkins of Pontypridd at 19 years of age. Scott Gibbs, also 19, was another debutant.
 
 The England players refused to give interviews to the BBC without a £5 000 interview fee at a time when rugby was still, at least in principle, amateur. The RFU insisted that the players give interviews.
 
 England won the Grand Slam.
 
 7 March 1992: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 Again England thrashed Wales and again won the Grand Slam.
 
 Again the England pack dominated. Will Carling, Mick Skinner and Wade Dooley scored tries for England. Carling scored in the first minute. Dooley was the last to score - in his 50th match for England.
 
 6 February 1993: This match was played at National Stadium, Cardiff
 
 Wales tackled and tackled, and England scored no tries. Emyr Lewis chipped and speedy Ieuan Evans beat Rory Underwood to the ball and kicked it past Jon Webb to score the only try of the match. At half-time Wales led 10-9. That as the fulltime score though England had by far the better of the second half.
 
 19 March 1994: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 England won the match 15-8 but Wales won the Five Nations Championship outright for the first time since 1979 because of a better points\' difference. England would have had to have been 16 points better than Wales to have won the trophy.
 
 There was now a trophy for winning, and Queen Elizabeth II presented it to the Welsh captain Ieuan Evans.
 
 Rory Underwood scored the try of the match.
 
 It was the 100th match between England and Wales. At that stage Wales led 48-40 with 12 draws.
 
 18 February 1995: This match was played at National Stadium, Cardiff
 
 For the second time against England Wales had a player sent off. This time it was prop John Davies of Neath, sent off in the second half for kicking Ben Clarke. Davies was suspended for 60 days.
 
 The referee Didier Mene of France allowed prop Hugh Williams-Jones to come on and Hemi Taylor to go off so that Wales still had 14 men but the scrums were safe. A month later the IRB made this switch permissible. Up till then replacements were only for injuries, and Taylor did manage a limp as he came off.
 
 Rory Underwood got two tries as England won 23-9.
 
 England won the Grand Slam that year.
 
 3 February 1996: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 Penalty goals made the difference. The sides each scored two tries but Paul Grayson kicked three penalties to Arwel Thomas\'s one, and England won 21-15.
 
 Robert Howley scored a try on debut. A mistake by Justin Thomas gave Jeremy Guscott a try. Thomas delayed and kicked. Guscott charged down the kick and scored.
 
 Rory Underwood scored his last Test try - his 49th.
 
 England won the Five Nations Championship.
 
 15 March 1997: This match was played at National Stadium, Cardiff
 
 It was the last Test on Cardiff Arms Park/National Stadium. Millennium Stadium would take its place from now on. The ground had been the scene of many great Welsh victories. But on this day England smashed Wales 34-13, four tries to one. The score was only 6-3 at half-time but then Jeremy Guscott, playing wing, produced magic.Playing his 50th Test, Neil Jenkins broke an arm early in the match.
 
 The last player to score a try at the ground was Robert Howley.
 
 England won the Triple Crown.
 
 21 February 1998: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 Wales started well enough and then conceded their biggest score ever in a match against England. England scored eight tries to four in beating Wales 60-26. It was till then the highest score by any side in the Five Nations.
 
 England won the Triple Crown.
 
 After Wales lost 51-0 to France coach Kevin Bowring gave up. But there was worse for Dennis Johns when South Africa beat Wales 96-13.
 
 11 April 1999: The match was played at Wembley Stadium.
 
 Millennium Stadium was being built and Wales played its \"home\" matches in London, at Wembley Stadium. There were 78 883 spectators at the match.
 
 This match was a thriller. England needed to win for a Grand Slam and so on. They were hot favourites to win.
 
 Somehow Wales hung in and were trailing 31-25 into injury time. But with the last move of the match, from a line-out, Scott Gibbs burst through, danced and waltzed in triumph to score a famous try. Neil Jenkins converted, and Wales had won 32-31.
 
 Jenkins kicked eight out of eight in the match - six penalties and two conversions. Jonny Wilkinson missed a conversion.
 
 The Welsh coach was New Zealander Graham Henry, dubbed the Great Redeemer.
 
 4 March 2000: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 The England pack was so dominant that all three loose forwards - Neil Back, Richard Hill and Lawrence Dallaglio - scored tries. Hooker Phil Greening also scored. Ben Cohen was the only back to score a try.
 
 England won 46-12
 
 3 February 2001: This match was played at Millennium Stadium.
 
 It was the first match between the two countries at Millennium Stadium. As England had thrashed Wales in the last match at the old stadium, so it thrashed Wales in the first match at the new one.
 
 Will Greenwood of England scored a hat-trick of tries in half an hour, and England led 29-8 at half-time.
 
 England won 44-15
 
 23 Mar 2002: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 England won 50-10
 
 It was England\'s biggest margin of victory over struggling Wales, but not the most tries. In fact there were only five but Jonny Wilkinson scored 30 points and he did so in all four ways with a try, five conversions, four penalty goals and a dropped goal. In the process he took his total number of Test points beyond 500 and he was only 22!
 
 22 February 2003: This match was played at Millennium Stadium.
 
 Wales were tougher opponents than England had probably expected. At half-time the score was just 9-6 to England but they came with a better second-half effort and a grand performance from Will Greenwood who scored one of the tries. Joe Worsley got the other, and Jonny Wilkinson kicked 16 points.
 
 England won 26-9.
 
 England won the Grand Slam that year.
 
 23 August 2003: This match was played at Millennium Stadium.
 
 England won 43-9 in a match intended as a warm-up for the World Cup. England rested many stars but were easy victors. It would have been an even bigger hiding had flyhalf Alex King not missed five penalty kicks at goal.
 
 England\'s captain on the day was the mighty Jason Leonard.
 
 9 November 2003: The match was played at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
 
 For the first time, Wales and England met three times in a calendar year. It was almost third time lucky as the Welsh broke out of their tentative mould to give first New Zealand and then England the run-around.
 
 For the second time England and Wales met in a World Cup match. On both occasions they were quarter-finals. In 1987 Wales beat England and they looked as if they would do it again in Brisbane as they scored three tries to England\'s one, but Jonny Wilkinson, playing his 50th match for England, scored 23 points.
 
 Wales led 10-3 at half-time but England won 28-17.
 
 England won the World Cup.
 
 20 March 2004: This match was played at Twickenham.
 
 Ben Cohen scored at the start of the match and all looked set for an expected English victory, but suddenly in the second half Wales climbed in with two great trues and led 21-16 with a quarter of an hi our to go, Then Cohen got his second try and Olly Barkley converted from touch. Barkley then kicked a penalty and Joe Worsley scored a try to make the victory look more comfortable than it was against the quicksilver Welsh.
 
 England won 31-21

TommyHowlett · Messaggio da **TommyHowlett** » 4 feb 2005, 14:01

Però ragazzi, quante ne possono raccontare le altre nazioni su questo fantastico torneo! 120 anni di sfide! Che invidia.