Tokyo — So the accent again falls on Monsieur Jérôme Garcès ahead of a Springbok Test.

His appointment to the occasion of a Rugby World Cup semifinal serves to heighten tension and the Boks would have taken the news like a samurai’s sword to the heart. Not that they would say anything publicly...

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