Fiji deserve to play with best in world

By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed

Every underdog has its day, as Daniel Dubois reminded us in knocking an entire cathedral’s worth of bells out of Anthony Joshua in London – or, as the capital city is now sycophantically known by those who make the biggest bucks from the fight game, Riyadh-on-Thames.
Fifteen-man rugby is no stranger to the breed. Fiji, deliberately marginalised despite their gift for lighting up the sport, are pretty much defined by the U-word, having been underfunded, undervalued and underexposed by the governing class, in significant part because they have never possess...

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