. On a night where the Stade de France resembled a sweaty mess of nerves and high emotion, France got theIt was the first time the All Blacks, three-time winners of the tournament, had ever lost a pool match. No wonderwere serenaded off the pitch by nearly 80,000 fans, with a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise.
This tournament has been billed as the biggest World Cup ever, as well as a celebration of the sport’s 200th anniversary, and crowds began to gather more than four hours before the 9.15pm kick-off. There were echoes of Danny Boyle’s London 2012 Olympics show as actors celebrated around a traditional town square, before dancing around a pop-up Eiffel Tower with the Webb Ellis trophy on top.
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