Fiji deserve to play with best in world

CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

Champions: Fiji celebrate winning the Pacific Nations Cup after defeating Japan last weekend
PICTURE: Getty Images

EVERY underdog has its day, as Daniel Dubois reminded us in knocking an entire cathedral’s worth of bells out of Anthony Joshua in London – or, as the capital city is now sycophanticallyknown by those who make the biggest bucks from the fight game, Riyadh-on-Thames.
Fifteen-man rugby is no stranger to the breed. Fiji, deliberately marginalised despite their gift for lighting up the sport, are pretty much defined by the U...

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