The 2015 Rugby Union World Cup Final.

Today has seen the final of the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup between New Zealand and Australia.

Given the intense rivalry between these two rugby mad nations I was really expecting a lot of banter in the run up to the game. After all the tournament began with an argument over whether the more deserving winner would be a nation that banned US popstar Chris Brown for life or one that was prepared to let him.

As far as I can tell it actually turned out to be rather subdued. There was a of course the #AirlineWager that played out online between Qantas the Australian national carrier and Air New Zealand the New Zealand national carrier.

This started out with New Zealand challenging Qantas to paint one of their aircraft in the famous All Black colours of the New Zealand rugby team if New Zealand won. Qantas agreed but only if New Zealand painted one of their aircraft in the Green & Gold of the Wallabies if Australia won.

Sadly by the time the Chairmen of both companies had got involved and the online argument had been stopped this was downgraded to flight crews of the losing team wearing the jerseys of the winning team tomorrow.

Unfortunately I don't think anyone in the airline industry is in a laughing mood at the moment.

Then on Wednesday (28/10/15) a lesbian couple from Auckland, New Zealand took to Facebook to find a man to father their children. The UK of course kidnapped my lesbian wife in a failed effort to force her into a gay marriage to produce little lesbian babies.

Although I prefer not to be reminded of that because I still think of it as a story unfinished these seemed like an attempt to get on the good side of referee Nigel Evans. Just this afternoon I discovered that not only is he Welsh he's from the same bit of Wales as my grandmother.

As the clear favourites I don't think New Zealand really needed to appeal to the referee. Taking a leaf out of South Africa's book Australia tried to break up New Zealand's play by tackling them at every opportunity. The problem was that Australia's discipline in the breakdown was nowhere near as good as South Africa's so they ended up conceding more penalties then they won.

Evans did make an uncharacteristic mistake in the first half. With New Zealand just 6-3 in the lead they put in a forward pass. However the referee awarded a penalty which New Zealand scored for the Australian tackle that ended what was - at that point - an illegal move. This though seemed to be the result of genuine human error rather then anything more sinister.

Having added a Milner-Skudder try which was converted by Carter New Zealand went in at half-time leading 16-3. Early in the second half the All Blacks looked like establishing their overwhelming rhythm when Nonu ran in another try. Although Carter missed the conversion this gave New Zealand a massive 21-3 lead.

Australia looked they'd been handed a life-line back into the match when Ben Smith prevented an Australian try by tackling Mitchell off his feet and tipping him over the horizontal. However as this was rightly ruled to be a tip-tackle rather then a full on spear-tackle Smith avoided a red card but received a yellow card and sent to the sin bin for 10 minutes. This is the first time a player has been sin binned in a World Cup final.

With the man advantage Pocock was able to score an Australian try which was converted by Foley. Despite Smith coming back on Kuridrani scored another Australian try which was converted by Foley. By making the score 24-17 this put Australia within in one converted try of levelling the match.

However just as the All Blacks were looking rattled Carter stepped up to settle their nerves with an impressive 40 yard/metre drop goal. This extended their lead to 27-17 and Barret ended the match with a try that was converted by Carter giving New Zealand a 34-17 victory.

As a result New Zealand become the first team in history to win back-to-back World Cups and the first team in history to win three World Cups.

However I should point out that I was recently excited to discover that the first Rugby World Cup I vaguely remember - in 1987 - was in fact the first Rugby World Cup.

In a further effort to completely knock the shine off of New Zealand's fully deserved achievement I have to say that as a neutral I found the predictability of it to be a little disappointing.

On day one of the tournament it was like; "New Zealand are going to win the World Cup." Now on the final day of the tournament it's like; "New Zealand have won the World Cup."

Last night saw the Bronze Medal Match between South Africa and Argentina. Prior to the semi-finals South African rugby coach Heyneke Meyer called for this game to be scrapped from future tournaments because it was demeaning and pointless. As a result no-one was really that bothered.

The match was really a succession of South African players celebrating their final top-flight game while we all waited to see if their star winger Bryan Habana could score his 16 World Cup try moving ahead of All Black legend Jonah Lomu.

Once Habana had been taken off without scoring we all waited to see if Argentina could score a try. Displaying the sportsmanship that's common place in rugby when Orlandi did finally did get Argentina's try the South African players were amongst the first to congratulate him.

South Africa won the match 24-13 but I doubt many will remember. If I'm being totally honest I only watched about an hour of it after wandering off mid-way through.

Strangely though the Americans seemed super into last night's game.

That's because in an effort to win the 2014 mid-term elections US President Barack Obama started the racially divisive Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest movement. Listening to BLM speak you would think they were protesting against something like segregation in the US in the 1960's or apartheid in South Africa rather then something that exists mainly in their heads.

The stupidity of the BLM protesters along with Obama's desire to over-look every law to support them has led to comparisons with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Julius Melema in South Africa. This has completely destroyed Obama's reputation as a local community organiser let alone President of supposedly the most powerful nation on earth.

Despite Obama's attempts to blame everything on racism a big problem facing America's black community is a complete lack of discipline. For example Micheal Brown who started the BLM movement died simply because he didn't think the laws against stealing from shops and attacking people in the street applied to him.

However beyond the lack of following the laws there also seems to be a complete lack of the sort of self-discipline needed to get up and go to work every morning or study to pass exams. This is a particular problem amongst black school children who experience extremely low rates of high school graduation.

The semi-final between South Africa and the All Blacks was all about self-discipline. In fact if the Blacks hadn't dramatically improved their self-discipline in the second half it would have been South Africa playing Australia in today's final.

So on Monday (26/10/15) a video emerged from Spring Valley High School in South Carolina, US that showed a white police officer tipping a black female student out of her chair and handcuffing her. South Carolina is of course the state where the Charleston shooting took place.

Although inspired by apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia as Zimbabwe used to be known the shooters actions may well be legally justified by the way BLM used terrorist tactics force State authorities to disregard the law in their - what is effectively at this point a kidnapping - of police officer Micheal Slager over the death of Walter Scott.

While I think even the worst rugby referee would question the presence of a desk and chair on the field the move used to remove the disruptive pupil from the classroom was similar to the sort of tip-tackle that saw Ben Smith sin binned today. Therefore you could certainly have got the impression that this was a test to see if Obama had learnt his lesson.

One thing that has bugged me about the BLM campaign is that the rest of the World sees all Americans as overly loud, aggressive and disruptive it seems that most Americans see black Americans as particularly loud, aggressive and disruptive. As we've seen in incidents like the McKinney pool party black Americans claim that they should be allowed to behave like this because it's part of their 'African heritage.'

This really annoys me because I don't think the amount of melanin in your skin determines your ability to moderate your behaviour based on the social situation. If you think it does then you're saying that segregation and apartheid are not only good ideas but completely essential ideas.

It also annoys me because unlike many of black Americans I've actually got to know people from Africa - both black and white - rather then some make believe slave ancestor. As a result I know that schools in many African nations are very big into corporal punishment.

For example I used to work with an apartheid-era South African policeman who would tell stories that could take the enamel off your teeth. One day he was talking about using a weapon called a Sjambok to break up riots in one of the townships. A sjambok is whip made from rhino tail. Where a baton is designed to bruise the skin and a knife is designed to cut the skin the sjambok is designed to tear the skin causing immense pain.

It was a this point a Nigerian guy chimed in and went; "Yeah our black teachers used those on us at school."

Therefore I find it hypocritical that black Americans demand that one aspect of their 'African culture' is respected while denying the very existence of another aspect.

As I've said there are severe problems of under achievement amongst black students in America. A large part of this problem is generations of black high school dropouts having children who go to school with no sense of self-discipline. Those children then either dropout or are expelled before having children of their own in between spells in prison.

This has become known as "The Prison Pipeline" and it needs to stop. Obviously according to Obama though it's all the result of a racist conspiracy and nothing to do with a lack of classroom discipline.

Although liberals will hate me saying so it could be worth considering introducing corporal punishment back into America's schools. Regardless of race when you're 13/14 you know nothing of the adult world so you don't understand the consequences of being expelled, being unemployable and ending up in prison.

However you do understand the immediate pain and shame of having your ass whupped in front of everyone.

So as if looking for answers from last night's Bronze Medal Match we had Hillary Clinton attending a campaign event for black voters that was disrupted by BLM protesters.

Suggesting that Obama may have failed the test with the firing of the police officer Spring Valley students held a protest in support of the officer while a video emerged from Allentown, Pennsylvania showing four police officers being injured breaking up a violent fight between two black female high school students.

Presumably they were just celebrating their heritage.

22:10 on 31/10/15 (UK date).