'Passionate man': Welsh teammates celebrate Wallabies victory with bizarre kiss

Two Wales teammates have become the talk of the Rugby World Cup after images of their passionate post-match kiss went viral.

The Welsh maintained their unbeaten start to the tournament with a controversial 29-25 victory over the Wallabies in Tokyo.

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The victory snapped a 32-year drought for Wales, whose last victory in a World Cup against Australia came way back in 1987.

Skipper Alun Wyn Jones was clearly pretty happy with the win.

The Wales captain was congratulating teammates after the final whistle when he stopped to give towering Welsh winger George North a hug.

The pair exchanged words briefly, before Wyn Jones leaned in and planted and unexpected kiss on North's lips.

The beautiful moment didn't go unnoticed with the Welsh captain joking about the incident when quizzed by reporters in his post-match press conference.

"I think his (North) wife's safe, put it that way," the Welsh skipper told reporters.

"We're obviously tight at the end and you share those moments with players, not always like that.

"It is what it is, I'm sure there will be some memes made out of it," he added.

The Rugby World Cup's official Twitter account took it upon themselves to make Wyn Jones' prediction come true, with viewers equally as impressed by the kiss.

One man who's mood could not even be brightened by a post-match kiss was Michael Cheika.

Australia coach fumes over controversial incidents

The Wallabies coach's midweek warning that it's "us versus everyone" at the Rugby World Cup returned to haunt him as the Aussies were left stewing over some baffling officiating in their four-point loss to Wales.

A captivating fightback from 18 points down at Tokyo Stadium on Sunday fell painfully short and will probably leave Australia with a wickedly difficult play-off path.

Cheika walked out on a television interview minutes after fulltime and the passionate coach had barely calmed down by the press conference, where he conceded he struggles to grasp rugby's latest regulations.

He described himself as "embarrassed" as a former player that the rules around collisions had both softened and also become so unnecessarily complicated.

Cheika also accused referees and TMOs of sucking the life from rugby with drawn-out replays of incidents.

Match officials are being "spooked" by World Rugby bosses, Cheika said, adding the sport is the big loser from head-high tackles being placed inside a black and white sanctioning framework.

He said players were becoming confused and he had joined them since watching games through the first two weeks of the tournament.

He was stunned to learn England back Piers Francis escaped any punishment for his apparent head-high tackle, while four other players in Japan have copped three-week bans, including Wallabies winger Reece Hodge.

"Oh look, I don't know every directive, there have been a few of them come out," Cheika said.

"I don't know any more. I don't know the rules any more, honestly."

Cheika queried why Australia's seemingly dominant scrum was penalised multiple times by French referee Romain Poite.

However, his chief concern was the momentum-swinging penalty against Samu Kerevi for bumping off tackler Rhys Patchell, who was upright.

Former Wallabies and Fox Sports commentator Phil Kearns slammed the Kerevi ruling and was just as adamant that Wales' halfback Gareth Davies should have had his converted try on the stroke of halfime ruled out.

Davies magically intercepted Will Genia's pass from a ruck and dashed 60m but Kearns said replays showed he was clearly offside

"It was just embarrassing that the referee hasn't gone back to look how far, he's (Davies) even 2m in front of his own defensive line that are moving up, that's an embarrassment," Kearns said.

Patchell and Wales coach Warren Gatland were unsurprisingly not willing to comment on some of the contentious calls.

Instead, they were happy to soak up their second World Cup win over Australia in seven meetings. The other was in the bronze medal playoff of the inaugural 1987 event.

With agencies