Spain won't be in Ireland's World Cup pool next year after appeal rejected

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This final and binding decision is a huge setback for Spanish rugby.:

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Spain in action during a recent clash with the Classic All Blacks. Image: Alberto Gardin Spain in action during a recent clash with the Classic All Blacks. Image: Alberto Gardin SPAIN’S APPEAL TO have their place at next year’s World Cup reinstated has been rejected.

Romania, who had been pipped to the World Cup spot by Spain, brought a case to World Rugby questioning whether South Africa-born Gavin van den Berg had been eligible to appear for Spain in two REC games against the Netherlands. World Rugby says that the Spanish union needed to prove to a new independent appeal committee that “a) the decision of the Independent Judicial Committee was in error; b) in the interests of justice that the decision should be overturned and/or c) that the sanction imposed was manifestly excessive or wrong in principle.”

2. in any event it would not be in the interests of justice to do so after having regard for all of the circumstances, including consideration that part of the new evidence presented was not only incomplete, but contained allegations against the player and others relating to the alteration of a photocopy of a national identity document that was subject to ongoing investigations by the appropriate competent bodies in the Spanish jurisdiction.

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