Your starter for 10 (which is different from “who’ll be starting at 10?”): what might Ealing, Wakefield, Angouleme, Bourg-en-Bresse and Chambery have in common?
It can’t be world-famous cheeses, exotic forms of wildlife or unilateral declarations of independence, so we must be talking rugby.
Think about it. Where else would Hong Kong and Zimbabwe play their Nations Cup home games?
Hong Kong and Zimbabwe? Don’t be daft.
Unfamiliar and culturally unconnected surroundings

In fairness to the tournament architects at World Rugby, our non-governing governing body, they have at least granted the ...