On This Day, 2003: Wilkinson wins World Cup for England

Sport360 staff 01:19 22/11/2016
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  • Wilkinson scores the drop goal that won England the World Cup in 2003.

    With just 26 seconds of the game remaining in Sydney, England’s star man dropped the goal that changed the score to 20-17 and won England the 2003 World Cup.

    It was the first time a side from the northern hemisphere had won the competition.

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    Here are the other notable events that happened on this day:

    1917: The National Hockey League ( NHL ) was formed in Montreal.
    1922: St Albans’ Billy Minter scored seven goals in an FA Cup tie against Dulwich, but ended up on the losing side as the match finished 8-7.

    1986: Mike Tyson became the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion when he beat Trevor Berbick at the age of 20 years and six months.
    2007: Steve McClaren was sacked as England manager after the team failed to qualify for Euro 2008.
    2008: New Zealand won the rugby league World Cup final 34-20 against Australia in Brisbane.
    2010: The Scottish Football Association drew up contingency plans to deal with a proposed strike by referees, including ”sourcing match officials in other countries”. The strike went ahead, with officials brought in from Israel, Malta and Luxembourg.
    2011: Cricket Australia announced South African Mickey Arthur as the new Australia coach.

    2013: England failed to cope with the pace of Mitchell Johnson as they lost six wickets for nine runs in a hapless collapse which turned the first Ashes Test on its head at the Gabba.
    2015: Rory McIlroy took victory in the DP World Tour Championship to claim a third Race to Dubai title in the last four years. The Northern Irishman had a bogey on the 17th but held on to his one-stroke lead on the 18th to edge out England’s Andy Sullivan.

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