Time aspiring nations received more even-handed officiating

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IT WAS hard not to feel for Fiji at the end of one of the epic World Cup matches. Not because Semi Radradra dropped a pass he would usually have taken with his hands behind his back that would have left the islanders needing a conversion to win or the mere one yellow card Wales received for multiple offences as they defended with resolve.
The immediate feeling was that this was another match between a championship and an emerging nation where the playing field was not level. Decisions, decisions and non-decisions.
It brought to mind somehing the Georgia captain Mehrab Sharikhadze said after a...

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