NICK CAIN

The Romania-Spain-Belgium World Cup qualifying scandal has forced the ostriches who thought the match-fixing could never happen in rugby union to pull their heads out of the sand rapidly.
Rapid is not a term which can be used to describe World Rugby’s reaction to the disgraceful events surrounding Belgium’s 18-10 victory over Spain in Brussels on March 18.
The barebones of the episode are that Romanian referee Vlad Iordachescu give a 19-7 penalty count in favour of Belgium in a match which decided whether Spain or Romania qualified for the 2019 World Cup tournament i...