Rugby union is going from strength to strength in the Pacific Island country and the team are eager to settle the score of a World Cup quarter-final defeat
True, they are the lowest-ranked team England will play in November, but it would be highly dangerous to underestimate Fiji. Coming between an
Opening victory against Australia
And a box-office encounter with the All Blacks, it might be easy to regard Saturday’s Twickenham encounter as a relatively straightforward assignment. Easy, but foolish.
You don’t have to go back far – two years or so, to an autumn afternoon in Marseille and England’s
2023 Rugby World Cup quarter-final
– to remember how potent Fiji can be.
Originally published at:The Guardian
Source: The Guardian
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