‘Some big men are in tears’: Rory Best rues Ireland’s World Cup failings

• Captain says team are fixated with poor quarter-final record• Ulster stalwart retires after winning 124th cap in All Blacks lossRory Best admitted Ireland’s fixation with their World Cup failings proved their undoing in the record 46-14 defeat to New Zealand as they lost their seventh quarter-final in nine attempts.Best’s Ireland career is now at an end after 124 caps, the 37-year-old Ulster stalwart having retired straight after the crushing All Blacks defeat. Ireland long ago admitted experimenting in this year’s Six Nations in a bid to peak at the World Cup, but Best has now conceded that…

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