Facing England in the opening game of the World Cup does not daunt Fiji and they expect to make the most of their warm-up game with Canada on SundayThat Fiji will occupy the domestic dressing room for Friday’s World Cup curtain-raiser is an irony lost on few – the perennial Pacific paupers pitching up and turfing England out of their princely environment at Twickenham.
It is also further evidence Fiji will fight their corner in the so-called hardest pool in World Cup history. This a country so cash-strapped players based in Europe had to fund their travel to Fiji for their tournament training camp,whose talent pool is so regularly plundered by tier-one nations taking advantage of residency rules, but who fancy themselves in what many perceive as a three-horse race between England, or Wales and Australia.
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Source: theguardian.com