England's World Cup final defeat against South Africa was desperately disappointing.
The way England have played at this World Cup and the depth of players they have as a group, this was absolutely the right squad to challenge for the trophy.
England fans will all be feeling totally dejected but nowhere near as upset as the players and management will be.
They were so far off winning that game. There is a weird part of me that, even though I feel totally dejected, does not feel quite as bad as if South Africa had nicked it at the death with a last-minute penalty or drop-goal. England just simply was not good enough.
I never felt for one minute that England was in a position to score points then run away with it. It was going to be a battle to the death and unfortunately, the Springboks seemed to be more capable of winning a World Cup final.
England has learned a big lesson. Those players are going to remember that for the rest of their lives and hopefully store it up to say they are never going to feel like that again, never going to make those mistakes under that sort of pressure again and they will come back as better players.
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