RUGBY EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP
GERMANY’S bid to qualify for a first ever Rugby World Cup got off to a flying start with an incredible 41-38 win against the higher-ranked Romania in the opening match of the Rugby Europe Championship.
Germany won’t care one jot that they were the recipients of one of the most questionable penalty tries ever to be awarded – nor the fact three of their heroes were South Africans – as they recorded their first win over Romania since 1938.
Romania should have had the game sewn up not once but twice, having led 24-6 and then 38-20, with Andrei U...