Argentina mix old and new to become a potent force at Rugby World Cup

Pumas have added large doses of adventure to their long-standing love of the scrum and collision to run in the triesArgentina and Ireland have not always seen eye to eye, other than when they are glaring at each other. Gus Pichot, now their man on the board of World Rugby, once had the temerity to accuse the saintly Brian O’Driscoll of trying to get Argentinians sent to the sin-bin, while Eddie O’Sullivan, then the Irish coach, accused the Pumas of gouging.It was against Ireland in Lens, in 1999, that Argentina announced themselves as a world power and went on to confirm it eight years later, …