Spare a thought for the bleary-eyed diehards who woke up at 6am on Monday to watch Fiji v Portugal for what should have been a tier 2 pool game at the World Cup. Instead, the Portuguese thrust a stake into the pathetic zombie Wallabies.
Just think: legions of blue-blood rah-rahs booked weeks of vacation in France expecting them to play at least one knockout game. Does Booking.com do refunds from Lyon’s surrounding suburbs because your rugby team is garbage?
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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
