Even ‘Invincibles’ flounder in Rugby World Cup


johan jaafarjohan jaafarSPORTS can be cruel. And unfair. Even merciless. In sports even those labelled ‘Invincibles’ floundered.All Blacks – the world’s best known rugby team – can lose.

They have lost in the first round, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and succumbed to bad strategy and pure hubris in the final of the World Cup.

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