Rugby World Cup 1999 - Semi Final - New Zealand v France

"The biggest upset in the whole of Rugby World Cup history"

Highlights of one of the most thrilling semi final encounters in the history of the tournament, in which Les Bleu managed to pull off the most unlikely victory against the mighty All Blacks - who were clear tournament favourites.

Pictures: ITV Sport

Commentators: John Taylor & Steve Smith

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• rugby world cup
• rugby world cup 1999
• semi final
• rwc 99
• new zealand
• all blacks
• france
• les bleu
• dominici
• lamaizon
• lomu
• try
• comeback
• upset
• rugby
• itv
• itv sport

[rawschri]

Big shift in attitude to the all-blacks since the O'Driscoll incident, on the last Lions tour, in the 5 Nations....before then were respected and highly regarded amongst all my rugby mates going back 30 years..now...all of them want to see their organised thuggery and cheating tactics rewarded with defeat....

[AcidSkiffle1988]

@rawschri You're right.Lost loads of respect for them ever since.Professional cheaters.

[Wolfoxfr22]

Math légendaire pour un stade légendaire qu'est Twickenham.

Comme quoi, lorsque les Anglais chantent la Marseillaise, les Français peuvent tout réaliser.

[loolfactorie]

I understand people are upset about this spear tackle yet spear tackles only resulted in a red card and made illegal AFTER this event, there for it wasnt "cheating" yet an unnecessary tackle. England, Wales and Ireland have all had incidents similar to this one. New Zealand has consistently been in the top 3 best teams in the world, won 2 world cups and 11 trie nations yet you call them professional cheaters? The country has a passion for this sport so if there good at it, yet dont pissed off.

[jerry7985]

The All Blacks are consistently good, yet never amaze

Les Bleus are inconsistently astounding

[batamist]

Fantastic French !

Fantastic Jonah Lomu, and good recovery for him...

[juanleiden]

i remember seeing this match, what a game

[repulic5]

i reall hope we lose (NEW ZEALAND) if we win it will be like "omfg "we won ya take that you redneck fuck heads or yeah!!take that ya snail eaters!" seriously its stupid and annoying how my country and government only gives a fuck about rugby and the world cup..just to porve that we are not "un-civilised"

who gives a fuck? we have better things to care about like how hard it is to get jobs or taxes and gst.

[vamplvers1]

no one will ever match the Allblacks you've got to see that, you look at jonah lomu and the other players just type them in on youtube it's amazing how great they were during there time no-one will ever match the talented allblacks.