CARDIFF: Kiwi fan Rachel Boase wasn't sure which was worse: being in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium when the All Blacks lost the quarter-final or having a Frenchman offer to buy her semi-final ticket minutes after full-time. "I could believe it," she said. "The cheeky beggar. But it's real isn't it? We lost. I can't believe it." Boase did what thousands of others dressed in black did afterwards: found the nearest pub and drowned their sorrows.
Greg Ford


