Rugby

Allegiances, betrayal cost SA the 2023 IRB World Cup

19 November 2017 - 00:00

By Craig Ray

South African rugby wasn’t so much stabbed in the back as smashed in the face when the World Rugby Council decided to award the 2023 IRB World Cup to France in defiance of its own code of conduct.

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