{"id":8340,"date":"2012-02-26T02:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-1-rugby-wales-beat-england-for-triple-crown\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:21","slug":"update-1-rugby-wales-beat-england-for-triple-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-wales-beat-england-for-triple-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Wales beat England for Triple Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Replacement runs 50 metres to clinch 19-12 win<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wales win 20th Triple Crown<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail, quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mitch Phillips<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Replacement centre Scott<br \/>\nWilliams scored a breakaway try five minutes from time to give<br \/>\nWales a thrilling 19-12 victory over a fired-up England at<br \/>\nTwickenham on Saturday to secure their 20th Six Nations Triple<br \/>\nCrown.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An inexperienced England side had looked set to upset the<br \/>\nodds and secure their own third win of the championship as they<br \/>\nled for most of the second half before Williams, on as a<br \/>\nsecond-half replacement for Jamie Roberts, turned the ball over<br \/>\nand ran 50 metres to score the only try of the match.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Four penalties each by Owen Farrell, in his first start as<br \/>\nEngland flyhalf, and Leigh Halfpenny had the game beautifully<br \/>\nbalanced at 12-12 going into the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Williams then made the vital score, though Wales had a<br \/>\nnervous wait when the video official ruled that David Strettle<br \/>\nhad failed to ground the ball as he dived over the line in<br \/>\nstoppage time.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The win was only Wales&#8217; second in 14 attempts at Twickenham<br \/>\nspanning 22 years and after their victories over Ireland and<br \/>\nScotland sets them up for a potential championship and grand<br \/>\nslam decider at home to France on March 17.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite unbelievable really, I don&#8217;t know what to say,&#8221;<br \/>\nWilliams said in an on-pitch interview.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Replacement runs 50 metres to clinch 19-12 win * Wales win 20th Triple Crown (Adds detail, quotes) By Mitch Phillips LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Replacement centre Scott Williams scored a breakaway try five minutes from time to give Wales a thrilling 19-12 victory over a fired-up England at Twickenham on Saturday to secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}