If Scotland don’t get to play Japan this World Cup will be tarnished | Ugo Monye

We do need to keep games of rugby in perspective but if Sunday’s Pool A decider goes the way of England v France then the knockout stage will be underminedFirstly, some perspective. There are people living in the suburbs of Tokyo who still do not have electricity due to the typhoon that hit a month ago. Lives were lost and houses were destroyed. Hagibis, which has caused so much disruption to the World Cup schedule, is more than three times the size of the last one.Let’s put rugby to one side for a second. We’re all here living in this micro-bubble of the Rugby World Cup but in three or four w…