Oh Canada! Why the sweet flowing syrup will better prickly roses

If you didn’t know better this story sounds like something from the Disney factory. A team of semi-professionals from a nation that gives rugby little regard versus a fully professional powerhouse from the nation that invented the game.

A team that had to crowd fund their way to the competition versus a team that is playing in their home backyard. A team that has not beaten their World Cup final opponents in the last five attempts and only beaten them three times from 37 matches versus a te...