Gus Pichot, architect of the new Argentina, revels in a rugby sea change | Mike Averis

The legendary Puma, architect of Argentina’s admission to the southern hemisphere Rugby Championship, is hoping his country can tame Ireland in Sunday’s World Cup quarter-finalEight years ago, in the basement at Stade de France, a 33-year-old scrum-half, still splattered with mud, let fly at the conservative world of rugby, telling anyone prepared to listen that Argentina could be ignored no longer. Gus Pichot’s side had just completed seven weeks of tweaking the nose of world rugby, first beating France on the opening night of their own World Cup in Paris before completing the embarrassment w…