England against france. Its been two weeks since they almost play that game against argentina. They managed to qualify through to the knockout stages, now they are hitting the top performance. They brought in henry slade, searching for the best forwards which they showed during their six nations campaign. But now they know it is all or nothing. If they be australia, theyll be through to the semifinals where they will play either ireland or new zealand. But if they lose, they will be going home. An awful amount of work has gone into this moment, a defining moment for this england side. And eddiejones is contracted to 2021, but if england failed tomorrow, there will be the end of eddie joness tenure. A huge amount of stea k joness tenure. A huge amount of steak thats at stake for him and his team. England against australia will be live on 5live tomorrow morning. And thats followed by ireland against the world champions new zealand. The irish will be looking to replicate the formula, that famously saw them beat the all blacks in dublin last year. But as our Sports Correspondent andy swiss now reports from tokyo, the odds are stacked against them. It is the ultimate test. Ireland prospect players preparing to face the all blacks once more and hoping they can turn back the clock. After a stunning six nations grand slam, a memorable win over new zealand in dublin. Since then, therefore has stuttered and they know only returned to their best will give them any chance. Know only returned to their best will give them any chancel know only returned to their best will give them any chance. I think the unfortunate thing about any 23 that comes against the all blacks as they can play really well and still not get the result. Thats the quality of the athletes they possess. Born of the things as they have connected very well, they have had some pretty successful experiences together. New zealand, though, have a look and ominous form. They havent lost a world cup magic for some 12 years. But after defeat in their two out of three games against ireland, they know they have no room for complacency. The irish are a good side, as well, really good side. Perhaps they havent played to their potential, but ina havent played to their potential, but in a world cup game, and final game, whoever turns up on the day there could be a few opportunities that present themselves. As well as the all blacks, ireland are also up against history here. Remember, theyve never been on the quarterfinal of the world cup. If theyre going to end that long wait, theyre going to end that long wait, they need to do it the hard way. Andy swiss, bbc news, tokyo. On sunday, wales play their quarter final against france and hosts japan play south africa. Wales will be at full strength when they line up in 0ita. They had been waiting on the fitness of fly half dan biggar, hes recovered from a concussion, which kept him out of their final group game. Its the same team that beat australia earlier in the tournament. Wales head coach, warren gatland, says theyve no reason to fear the french. We have had a great record against them, we have won seven of the last eight games and the one we lost was the 100 minute game in paris, where they scored in the last minute, so, but even in saying that, they have always been close, close games, and but we are going in with you know a lot of belief, a lot of belief, a lot of self confidence. Bristol kicked off the Rugby Union Premiership season with a thumping seven try win over bath. Bristol opened the scoring with the first try in under two minutes when winger luke morahan dived in at the corner. And the bears started as they finished with morahan scoring his second in the closing seconds of the match to complete a 43 16 win. The Bulgaria National football coach Krasimir Balakov has resigned. He was in charge of the team for the 6 0 defeat to england in sofia, on monday night, which was marred by racist chanting from home supporters. The Bulgarian Football Union say he has left his role because of unsatisfactory results in recent months. The match, which was a euro qualifier, had to be stopped twice because of monkey chants and nazi salutes among the home support. After first saying that he didnt see any abuse, he later apologised to the england players. This months el clasico between barcelona and real madrid has been postponed because of fears of civil unrest. The match was scheduled for 26 october, but there have been several days of protest in barcelona after nine catalan separatist leaders were jailed on monday. Both barcelona and real madrid disagreed with calls to switch the game to madrid. Barcelona have proposed a new date of 18 december. In tonights championship game, cardiff scored a late equaliser to salvage a draw against sheffield wednesday. The 0wls took the lead throuthulian borner in the first half before this late free kick from lee tomlin ensured the points were shared. Wednesday move in to the top six. Andy murray is through to his first tournament semifinal, since returning from hip surgery. The two time wimbledon champion and former world number one beat romanian qualifier marius copil to reach the last four. He had to fight for it though. Having won the first set, copil then took the second in a tie break, before murray came through to close out the match 6 3, 6 7, 6 4. In other tennis news, the british number 0nejohanna konta wont play again this season. Shes had a knee problem and has decided to focus on rehabilitation,