The video referee who disallowed Mark Cueto's potentially-decisive try in the World Cup final insists he is "100% happy" with his decision.

Australian official Stuart Dickinson, who took an age to disallow England winger Cueto's score in Saturday's 15-6 defeat to South Africa, claims there is no doubt his call was correct.

Had the 42nd-minute score been allowed to stand, England would have narrowed South Africa's 9-3 lead to a point.

Dickinson said in the Daily Telegraph: "There's no doubt about it, it's correct. There's stills footage and all the pictures we looked at on the night have been proved to be right. There's a lot of definitive footage there.

"I'm 100% happy with the decision. His foot runs into touch by about 25 to 30 centimetres. Factually, it is indisputable. If you know the decision is correct and people are still upset, well there's nothing you can do about that is there? Opinions are like bums, everyone's got one."

Dickinson revealed language problems with French TV producers led to the delay in making his decision, which was made despite him being unable to obtain freeze-frame pictures.

"Looking at the first replays, it was clear that Mark Cueto had grounded the ball correctly and that his body was in play when he did so, which left the question of whether his toe had slid in as the only issue," said Dickinson.

"With the language barrier between me and the French TV producers, I wasn't able to get frame-by-frame pictures last night. The producer didn't slow it down for me so I had to make the judgment in real time. That's why it took so long. Eventually we got that view down the line which cleared it up."

Dickinson rubbished suggestions some England fans looking for someone to blame for Saturday's defeat will focus on the fact he is an Australian.

"What's being an Aussie got to do with it?" he said. "The decision was correct and my nationality is irrelevant."

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