The Rugby World Cup third-place game is a match no team wants to play no matter what the players or coaches say in public. Yet England's meeting with Argentina on Friday might feel even more insignificant for the English.
England’s Tom Curry gestures during a training session, on the outskirts of Paris, France, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. England’s Tom Curry walks off the pitch due to an injury during the Rugby World Cup semifinal match between England and South Africa at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Saturday, Oct, 21, 2023. England’s head coach Steve Borthwick leads a training session at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, France, Thursday, Oct.
England’s Rugby Football Union reacted with fury at the decision, expressing its deep dismay that World Rugby decided against putting the evidence before an independent disciplinary panel.South Africa selects Pollard to start in Rugby World Cup final and goes with high-risk 7-1 benchCurry has been picked in England’s starting lineup for the game but his 50th cap for his country is in danger of being completely overshadowed.
“To make a statement like that isn’t easy, to call out stuff like that isn’t easy and as he has seen this week, when you do something courageous like that you put yourself out there.”by New Zealand in the semifinals, is playing in the bronze medal match for the third time in the last five editions of the World Cup. The first was in 2007, also in Paris, when the Pumas beat France 34-10 at the Parc des Princes on the back of a wonderful performance from flyhalf Juan Martin Hernandez.
England scrumhalf Ben Youngs will appear in his record 127th and last test. Courtney Lawes is also retiring from international rugby but has already played his final test because he won’t be involved.
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