Rugby World Cup officials celebrate big crowds, downplay head-injuries rulings
Rugby World Cup organizers apologized again on Wednesday to fans who missed the start of matches in Marseille and Bordeaux last weekend, and didn’t believe the refereeing on head injuries has been inconsistent.
At Marseille’s Stade Velodrome, several thousands of the 63,000 ticket-holders missed the start of the England-Argentina match on Saturday because of bottlenecks outside. Organizers are working with local transport authorities to increase the number of trams in Bordeaux, which plays host to Samoa-Chile on Saturday, South Africa-Romania on Sunday and Fiji-Georgia on Sept. 30.
But no action was taken against South Africa centre Jesse Kriel for his head-on-head collision with Jack Dempsey in the victory against Scotland. The incident was missed by the referee and the television match official . Plus, Chile captain Martin Sigren was guilty of a similar tackle to Curry’s during the loss against Japan but he got only a yellow card.
An uncommon September heatwave last weekend sent temperatures as high as 36 C and contributed to longer-than-usual beer queues. A total 90,000 cups of beer were sold on Sunday at the South Africa-Scotland game in Marseille, surpassing the record of 50,000 from a match in the French Top 14 league.“We thought we had sufficient supplies based on previous records, but those records were broken,” Collette said. “The second consequence is that the barrels have been difficult to keep refrigerated.
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