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As Handre Pollard put boot to ball, they held their breath, a night of countless kicks to be settled by one last hoist for the heavens peraplay

The replacement fly half’s penalty was straight and true – the champions had found a way peraplay

It was a wretched game for a wretched night upon which a rocky South Africa threatened a total horror show, yet at the same time impossible to look away from peraplay

It looked for so long like the ghosts of Yokohama would be exorcised, England’s pack standing up to the challenge to match South Africa at their own game peraplay

But the Springboks had just enough, RG Snyman punching over from close range and Pollard producing that final, decisive penalty peraplay

There was little here to please the aesthete but by God was it a compelling contest peraplay

Fears of a second successive semi-final drubbing proved unfounded as England’s unfancied underdogs swelled in stature to meet and so nearly beat the mighty Springboks peraplay

Instead, Springbok spectres will stalk them again peraplay

An unloved England were happy to play unlovely rugby peraplay

For so long it worked, Steve Borthwick’s side backing up their belief in themselves taking the reigning, defending champions to the limit peraplay

Pollard’s first-half introduction had been a substitution that said everything peraplay

Just half an hour had been played and already Jacques Nienaber and Rassie Erasmus had seen enough, retrieving their hook to make a trademark gutsy call peraplay

Off went Manie Libbok; on came Pollard on a night for route one rugby peraplay

After all the talk of the Springboks’ evolution, after only half-an-hour they were reverting to type peraplay

South Africa celebrate after RG Snyman’s second-half try (AFP via Getty Images)But as so often for these champion Springboks, it proved the right call, Pollard inevitably the man to land the knockout blow peraplay

Onwards South Africa go to take on New Zealand – a battle for a record fourth men’s World Cup crown feels a fitting final for a tournament bursting back into life after the Friday night dirge peraplay

Even before kick-off, there was a crackle and a fizz to the atmosphere that the first semi-final had lacked, a healthy contingent of French fans taking out their frustration on referee Ben O’Keeffe and a select few South Africans as their names flashed on the big screen peraplay

It was a near perfect opening ten minutes from England peraplay

The battle of the skies was always likely to be vital, and the intensity of the rain made it ever more so peraplay

The entirety of England’s back three, plus centre Joe Marchant, won their first aerial contests, while Maro Itoje’s lineout pressure resulted in a pinch at the front and a not-straight throw to the tail peraplay

South Africa infringed twice at ruck time in their own 22; Farrell capitalised both times from the tee peraplay

Tone set peraplay

Steve Borthwick’s side had come with next to no intent to play running rugby, over-resourcing every ruck to make certain of the ball peraplay

The caterpillar would form, the chasers mass, eager travellers ready for their next flight peraplay

A game of dribs and drabs inevitably became fractured and fractious, captains Kolisi and Farrell jawing at one another and the referee peraplay

Manu Tuilagi sparked a scuffle by placing an arm around the neck of Cobus Reinach, resulting in a South Africa penalty, before Farrell’s failure to hold his tongue a few minutes later moved Libbok within a kickable distance peraplay

South Africa’s fly half knocked through his side’s opening three peraplay

England fell narrowly short in a compelling physical contest (Getty Images)His opposite number re-extended England’s advantage immediately after, full-back Steward like a bounding gun-dog on the chase and forcing a backfield error peraplay

The next high hoist was Elliot Daly’s to chase, the wing detonating the chest of Duane Vermeulen peraplay

England, unloved but unbowed, were making physical statementsThe replacement ten was on the board via his right boot soon enough, a simple starter from just right of the posts after a rare English aerial error peraplay

Soon enough, normal service resumed - after England’s 22nd kick from hand of the half, Farrell’s fourth clean strike from the tee left their half-time lead six points peraplay

Everything seemed to be coming up roses peraplay

Granite-shouldered George Martin was thumping everything in sight, landing a series of heavyweight tackles; scrum half Alex Mitchell boxed clever, flighting his kicks from the base beautifully peraplay

With Pollard already on, Faf de Klerk and Willie le Roux were always likely to arrive early in the second half, stability through the spine for South Africa clearly key peraplay

With the rain intensifying, the errors mounted, Jamie George uncharacteristically tossing two lineouts asunder peraplay

South Africa had yet to fire a shot but at least had the intent to do so peraplay

It was a match that could have been swung by one supreme bit of skill, and a lovely move peraplay

Le Roux’s hack ahead was too strong, ball trickling dead with the veteran full-back chasing in vain peraplay

Martin, Mitchell and Joe Marler departed, three of Borthwick’s boldest selection calls taking leave together, job appropriately done peraplay

Their bums had barely hit the bench when they rose to their feet, peering around the dugout to watch Farrell launch a drop goal seemingly from central Paris peraplay

Once ball left boot, there never seemed even a smidgen of doubt - was this to be Farrell’s Wilkinson moment?Owen Farrell’s drop goal looked to have put England on the verge of victory (AP)At that stage, England’s four outside backs had a combined 17 run metres, all from one Steward kick return peraplay

Aesthetically-pleasing the gameplan was not but those with English hearts cared not, sweaters shed to reveal red roses on white chests right around the Stade de France peraplay

On a rare attacking opportunity, Farrell might have made more with an overlap on the left but could not resist another kick peraplay

In truth, it was a touch aimless, but a ball skimming over a sodden surface was never likely to settle in the hands simply - through Kurt-Lee Arendse’s hands it went like a greased weasel peraplay

England could not make much of the position and the momentum started to turn peraplay

Ox Nche providing immediate impact on the loosehead for South Africa, and Snyman stomped with intent from the second row, too peraplay

A kick to the corner from a penalty in England’s half allowed Snyman a close-range carrying opportunity – the lock is a a Goliath even among the South African colossi and would not be stopped peraplay

Nche went to work once more, earning a scrum penalty on halfway peraplay

Pollard hoisted and through it went – England had been kicked out peraplay

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Two elderly men were suited peraplay

In one case, he was much smarter than normal, dressed up for the occasion peraplay

He was the taller, more angular, with the more pronounced Northumbrian accent, but the resemblance was nonetheless apparent peraplay

He was the older, too, and had long referred to a knight of the realm as “Our Kid” peraplay

He adopted a slightly more formal approach, while seemingly choking up peraplay

“Bobby Charlton is the greatest player I’ve ever seen,” he said peraplay

“He’s me brother peraplay

”It was 15 years ago, when Jack Charlton presented his younger brother with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC peraplay Sports Personality of the Year award peraplay

The clip has an added poignancy after Bobby’s death at 86; three years ago, a couple of months after his 85th birthday, Jack had died peraplay

The brothers were different players and very different characters – the wisecracking, outspoken Jack was more of a man of the people, but Bobby’s quiet dignity gave him a statesmanlike air peraplay

They were not always close but their achievements will live on peraplay

There have been 22 men’s peraplay football World Cups and only two sets of brothers have won the most prestigious of prizes: Fritz and Ottmar Walter for West Germany in 1954, Bobby and Jack Charlton at West Germany’s expense in 1966 peraplay

It remains the most famous year in English peraplay football history; perhaps it always will peraplay

At the heart of it was Bobby Charlton: the 1966 FWA peraplay Footballer of the Year and Ballon d’Or winner, named by France peraplay Football – in the days before Fifa had an official award – as the best player at the World Cup peraplay

Gary Lineker, who was a goal away from equalling Charlton’s long-standing national record of 49 for his country, called him England’s greatest ever player, Gary Neville, one of his successors as Manchester United captain, deemed him the greatest ever English player peraplay

They are not necessarily the same: but in Charlton’s case, he could be both peraplay

Perhaps only the other immortal Bobby – Moore, the 1966 captain – can challenge him for the title of the finest in an England shirt peraplay

RecommendedSir Bobby Charlton turned tragedy into triumph with unique style and perseveranceFans lay flowers and scarves at Old Trafford following death of Bobby CharltonTributes paid to ‘giant of the game’ Sir Bobby Charlton after his death at 86Charlton was the second English peraplay footballer, and just the third man, to reach 100 caps peraplay

His 106th and last, in the 1970 quarter-final against West Germany, set a world record that Moore – and then many others – subsequently passed peraplay

He straddled eras – his first cap came alongside Tom Finney, who debuted in England’s first match after the Second World War, and one of the last alongside Emlyn Hughes, who represented his country in the 1980s – but defined one, a time of glory peraplay

Thirty years before Frank Skinner and David Baddiel sang about peraplay football coming home, Charlton brought it back peraplay

Their lyric – “Bobby belting the ball” – conjured images, some in colour, some in black and white, of a figure with a combover hairstyle and the cannonball shot striking the ball with beautiful ferocity, often rising throughout its way into the net peraplay

Bobby Charlton, centre, celebrates with the World Cup at Wembley (Getty Images)Decades before the invention of expected goals, Charlton was scoring unexpected ones peraplay

Consider his opener against Mexico, England’s first of the 1966 World Cup, from such a distance that the chance of it going in was statistically low, except for one factor: that Charlton, with such power on either foot, was hitting it peraplay

He was the master of the long-range hit: if most of Lineker’s 48 goals were predatory finishes, many of Charlton’s 49 were spectacular peraplay

Such a clean striker of a ball was not a striker at all: largely a left winger in his younger days, later the attacking-midfield fulcrum of Sir Alf Ramsey’s ‘Wingless Wonders’ peraplay

He began in the old W-M formation, ended up as, in effect, the tip of a midfield diamond peraplay

It was a tactical shift, a belated move into modernity that Ramsey brought peraplay

If there was a pragmatism to England’s World Cup win, Charlton was the artist peraplay

With his brace against Portugal in the 1966 semi-final – like another double against Portuguese opposition, Benfica, in the 1968 European Cup final – he illustrated his talent could shine on the biggest of occasions peraplay

The 1966 semi-final was not seen by his father, Robert, a coal miner working a shift underground in his home town of Ashington; “his duty”, Bobby subsequently, and remarkably, reflected peraplay

On the grandest stage of all, the 1966 final, he was sacrificed, Charlton and Franz Beckenbauer deputed to man-mark each other peraplay

They received the same assignment in the 1970 quarter-final; England’s era of ascendency ended when Ramsey removed Charlton with 20 minutes remaining to save him for the semi-final, the 32-year-old distracted by the prospect of his withdrawal as Beckenbauer ran forward to reduce England’s lead to 2-1; without him, they lost 3-2 peraplay

Ramsey thanked him for his service on the plane back from Mexico: Bobby knew his England career, like Jack’s, was over peraplay

Bobby Charlton in action against his brother Jack (PA Archive)It could have been still more glorious: keep Charlton on and maybe England would have prevailed in 1970 peraplay

But for Garrincha’s brilliance, Charlton wondered if England would have been victorious in the 1962 quarter-final against Brazil, and then the tournament as a whole peraplay

He went to four World Cups in all, not taking the field in his first: time has rendered it more extraordinary that his England debut came in 1958, a couple of months after the Munich air disaster peraplay

He scored, too, but if a poorer performance on his third cap was understandable – it came in Belgrade, scene of the Busby Babes’ last game before Munich – it cost him his place in Walter Winterbottom’s starting 11 in Sweden peraplay

Were Duncan Edwards, Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor and Eddie Colman to have lived, perhaps England would have won more and sooner peraplay

But it was Charlton who became the emblem of English peraplay football; the face of what is now a bygone age peraplay

In its own way, it felt appropriate that a man who carried a huge responsibility for decades was the last survivor among the players at Munich; now it may be fitting that Geoff Hurst, who had the final say in 1966, is the last of Ramsey’s chosen 11, forever charged with paying tributes to his fallen comrades peraplay

And Bobby Charlton, the greatest player Jack ever saw, the greatest to have Three Lions on his shirt, took England to the summit of the global game peraplay

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