An England-Wales final? Jones and Gatland have the knowhow to deliver it | Robert Kitson
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New Zealand and narrowly South Africa are the semi-final favourites but the Antipodean coaches of England and Wales have the experience to make both games tantalisingly closeSome Rugby World Cup semi-finals stay longer in the memory than others. For every stunning sporting spectacle – Sydney 1987, Dublin 1991, Cape Town 1995 and Twickenham 1999 – a good number have been unable to match the hype. Often they are not even close: in no fewer than nine of the 16 semi-final contests to date there has been a double-figure margin of victory.Major surprises, historically, have also been relatively spar…





