Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch last night's final, but from what one can read in the newspapers it wasn't a beautiful game so I guess I didn't miss much. Still I think it's okay that South Africa won the Cup since they have been the team who have been playing most consistently over the past few weeks. True, they had their moment in the pool match against England and after that they kind of lost their momentum a little bit. But their style of Rugby looked by far more convincing than the brutal will England forced upon their opponents. With the other two southern hemisphere giants out of the tournament it was only natural that the Springboks took home the trophy. England may have had the chance, but in all of their matches they came through because of their sheer determination which just doesn't seem to be enough against South Africa.It is rather disappointing that such a great tournament had its highlight with a final that didn't feature one try. Having said this I don't know anything about the ratings for the German TV coverage, but it seems that the interest in rugby has risen slightly over the course of the World Cup. Usually newspapers would only print small reports of only a few words, but nowadasy there's long reports about the teams and their stars. Players like Wilkinson, Habana, Chabal or Carter were portrayed in the German media, which is progress for a sport which is still considered to be way too brutal to be played over here. Maybe things will change over the next four yaers, but wat it needs to keep rugby in the spotlight is coverage in the media, especially on TV. Because of that I hope that some station might broadcast the Six Nations or the Tri Nations matches.
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