Josh Matavesi confident Fiji can upset someone at Rugby World Cup
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Fiji’s fly-half was born and bred in Cornwall but his heart was always with his father’s homelandThink of rugby in Cornwall and grizzled front-row forwards such as Brian “Stack” Stevens, Phil Vickery and Trevor Woodman spring to mind. Fijian fly-halves? Not so much. But marshalling the islanders’ backline at Twickenham on Friday, providing the platform for the sidesteps and body-swerves, will be Josh Matavesi – born and raised near the Camborne quarries rather than on Suva’s sand.His father, Sireli, was a coconut farmer from the remote Vanua Balavu island but made such an impression on a Fiji …





