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fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 hours agoJapan suspends Australian rugby coach Jones for verbally abusing officials
Japan suspended Eddie Jones for four games and cut his salary after verbal abuse of match officials during an Under-23 tour.
The shadow of the defending champions, New Zealand, looms over Pool C and on that basis Ireland could not afford to lose. They kicked off their World Cup campaign with a fluent victory, in which every element of their game functioned well on the immaculate Franklin's Gardens pitch. Japan won the previous match between these two, a 29-10 victory in 2022, and had they upset the odds it would hardly have represented their own Miracle of Brighton from the men's World Cup in 2015.