GAVIN RICH: This could be the year of the Irish
The French World Cup hosts are more likely to choke
13 February 2023 - 05:00
They’re getting all excited in the north about Ireland again, and it isn’t just in the streets of Dublin, Limerick, Galway and Belfast that there is now talk of this being Ireland’s Rugby World Cup year. The scribes from across the Irish Sea are starting to believe it is possible too.
In the past I saw all talk of Ireland being favourites to lift rugby’s Holy Grail as hubris. For they have a record in the sport’s global showpiece event similar to the Proteas in the Cricket World Cup. In other words, they flatter only to deceive...
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