Guaranteed as Kobe beef: the Munster-heavy Irish pack will shed bucket loads of lean meat at the Misaki Stadium. One nondescript high-rise is home to most of the Vissel Kobe (soccer), Steelers (rugby) and Orix Buffaloes (baseball) foreign stars. It’s a perfect, air-conditioned alcove for a pudgy Irish reporter unable to cope with 10pm humidity in the Higashinada ward. It took Scotland 74 minutes to capture the bonus point when trapped under Misaki’s ceiling. “I talked before we came to this tournament how pressure can affect rugby teams [he said this about Ireland].

Source: The Irish Times October 02, 2019 17:37 UTC