By NICK CAIN

England ..............................15pts
Penalties: Farrell 3, 10, 24, 39
Drop goals: Farrell 53

South Africa .....................16pts
Tries: Snyman 69
Conversions: Pollard 70
Penalties: Libbock 21, Pollard 35, 78
This was a semi-final which brought the cruellest cut of all when a courageous, battling England performance ended in a one-point defeat by South Africa due to a booming Handre Pollard penalty two minutes from time.
The irony was that the pressure point penalty from 50 metres from a crabbing, under pressure England scrum, did not tell anything like the full...