High fives and Guinness as Japan celebrates latest rugby shock

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Delight as host nation’s win over Ireland lights up the World Cup

In the end, as ecstatic Japanese rugby fans celebrated their team’s first victory over Ireland on Saturday, it was left to a retired warrior from the losing side to offer a sense of perspective.

 

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Well deserved. The Japanese have to be the most polite and good sports of any nation of people.

Is the shock a revelation that rugby is boring to watch sober?

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