Rugby union’s budding talents still need help to blossom fully | Sean Ingle

Japan’s shock defeat of South Africa highlights how gap between top sides and the rest is closing, yet there is still a good deal administrators could do“If there was a Richter scale for sporting earthquakes,” wrote Hugh McIlvanney after the tectonic spite of a James “Buster” Douglas right uppercut and left hand had crumpled Mike Tyson – and the jaws of those watching – to the floor, “what happened would have to be considered two or three points clear of any other shock in 20th-century boxing.” While Tyson fumbled for his gumshield the rest of us did much the same for suitable adjectives. The …