Homer’s odyssey was a PR disaster

RUGBY’S authorities, such as they are, should be throwing the book at the seven-a-siders from England and Argentina who dragged their sport through the mire during the now infamous World Series stand-off in France. A hefty tome by Tolstoy or Proust would best fit the bill, given that Will Homer spent so long running down the clock behind the South American goal-line, he could have read War and Peace from cover to cover and still had time for a multipage paragraph of “A la recherche du temps perdu”. Can you imagine the fuss had the boot (or, rather, the bed...

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