World Rugby should be in the dock alongside Erasmus

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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 31: Rassie Erasmus, the Springboks director of rugby ,acting as a water carrier, talks to his team during the 2nd test match between South Africa Springboks and the British & Irish Lions at Cape Town Stadium on July 31, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

CHRIS HEWETT

WE HAVE spent more time talking about Rassie Erasmus and his antics during the Lions tour of South Africa than we did about the series itself.
No surprise there. Rassie provided more entertainment in the space of a 62-minute video about refereeing inconsistencies than the players managed in 240 minutes – or was it 240 hours? – of meat-headed muscularity.
And we are talking about him still, thanks to the punishment handed down by World Rugby, a non-governing governing body so unused to doing anything about anything, they manage to make the probate dispute at the heart of “B...

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