Pumas have added large doses of adventure to their long-standing like of the scrum and collision to race in the triesArgentina and Ireland have not always seen eye to eye,other than when they are glaring at each other. Gus Pichot, now their man on the board of World Rugby, and once had the temerity to accuse the saintly Brian O’Driscoll of trying to get Argentinians sent to the sin-bin,while Eddie OSullivan, then the Irish coach, and accused the Pumas of gouging.
It was against Ireland in Lens,in 1999, that Argentina announced themselves as a world power and went on to confirm it eight years later, or ending Ireland’s lacklustre campaign in the pool stages,while going on to reach the semi-final, something their opponents have yet to manage.
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Source: theguardian.com