Bryan Habana, who joined Jonah Lomu as the leading try-scorer in a World Cup tournament, has won the IRB player of the year award. The South Africa wing received more votes than the Argentina pair, Juan MartÍn Hernández and Felipe Contepomi, Richie McCaw (New Zealand) and Yannick Jauzion (France) and is joined, inevitably, by Jake White, of South Africa, as coach of the year and the Springboks as team of the year.

Jason Robinson’s participation in the game at Twickenham on December 1, between the Barbarians and South Africa, is in doubt after he dislocated his right shoulder. “I feel now that Saturday’s game could have been my last,” Robinson, who will retire from all rugby, said yesterday.

Bernard Lapasset, the head of the World Cup’s organising committee, admitted that security “was not up to the standards we expect” after a fan wearing an England shirt ran on to the pitch minutes before the presentation ceremony. “We have looked back at what happened on the video, and we will look exactly at the conditions in which it happened,” Lapasset said.

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South Africa looked like a team who had prepared for four years, England like a team who had prepared for four weeks

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• It’s widely known that I’m teetotal. I broke the habit on this occasion

• England take heart from brave new pretenders

• How England rated

• Miracle men suffer dose of reality

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• England's future rosy, but is Ashton included?

• Toulon wait for Springboks master

• IRB aims to secure future not just for kicks

• South Africans urged to grasp chance for change

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• Springboks dominate awards

• Boks on top in brutal battle

• Springbok kickers destroy England

• Ashton merits credit for glorious run

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• It's over: dream dies as Boks win Rugby World cup

• Boks kill the unlikely dream

• Brave England go down with pride

• Video ref made 'brilliant decision’

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• So who ate all the croissants?

• Au revoir France

• Victory whoops of the rainbow warriors

• Mrs Mills solves all your rugby problems

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• English roses fall for Saint Jonny

• Stodgy England confine Bryan Habana

• Still joking about the All Blacks and Wallabies

• Wheels come off the chariot

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