PETER JACKSON

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Shaking up the world: South Korea celebrate victory over Germany

At the FIFA World Cup last week, the No.1 seeds were knocked off their planetary pedestal by a country ranked 56 rungs beneath them. Regrettably, what South Korea did to Germany could never be replicated at the rugby version in Japan next year.
The very notion of rugby’s perennial No.1 team, New Zealand, being tripped up by the 57th, Sweden, is too preposterous for words. Even if World Rugby were to copy football and increase the number of finalists, the Swedes would still hav...