Rugby World Cup 2011: Dan Carter’s injury has thrown it all wide open

Eddie Butler: After the All Black fly-half's cruel blow, other teams in the quarter-final draw will have something of a spring in their step

Rugby World Cup 2011: Ronan O’Gara takes Ireland towards Wales test

Ireland expected a difficult match against an emotional Italy in Dunedin but their in-form fly-half and brutal back row set up an easy victory

England cast a forbidding shadow over the World Cup after their win against Scotland at Eden Park and new revelations of misbehaviour off the field

England's World Cup campaign hit by more controversy as players accused of 'humiliating' New Zealand hotel worker

Wales strolled into the quarter-finals as they ran in nine tries against a woeful Fiji side

The France coach, Marc Lièvremont, has admitted to divisions in his squad but insisted that he will keep fighting despite defeat by Tonga

Ireland set-up a quarter final against Wales with a powerful second-half display against the Italians

The New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter has been ruled out for the remainder of the World Cup with a groin injury sustained in training

England are in fresh trouble after James Haskell, Dylan Hartley and Chris Ashton were warned about their conduct towards a female hotel worker

Dan Carter, the All Blacks fly-half, tore a tendon in his groin while practising kicking and is out of the World Cup

Eddie Butler: The All Blacks have a point about the need to renegotiate World Cup money, but chose to make it with the subtlety of a mugger

Jonny Wilkinson showed with the crucial drop kick that turned the Scotland game back England's way that he still has what it takes

Dean Ryan: England's conservative approach will be punished in the latter stages of the Rugby World Cup

Samoa made an untimely exit from the Rugby World Cup against a backdrop of controversy