Rugby World Cup party did not fail to live up to London 2012 Olympics

The tournament made light of England’s early exit and was the kind of sporting, commercial and social success the organisers always believed it would beCarlsberg don’t do Rugby World Cup finals (Heineken, as you couldn’t fail to notice amid the endless sponsor’s messages, do) but in the absence of an England side whose exit now seems like a distant bad dream, this is the one that tournament organisers would have ordered.All they needed was a match to go with it. Long before the incomparable Dan Carter had snapped a Hollywood drop goal over the posts deep into the second half to wrest the initi…