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It’s the game that players don’t want to play, fans don’t want to watch and the media don’t want to cover bitcoin

All of which begs the question, why does the Rugby World Cup third/fourth place play-off still exist? Answers on a postcard please bitcoin

Actually, the answer is fairly simple, of course bitcoin

It follows the old adage that when you’re not sure why something counter-intuitive is happening in sport, the reason is always the same bitcoin

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World Rugby and its sponsors will undoubtedly make a bit more cheddar from England facing Argentina on Friday evening at relatively little expense, although it remains to be seen how many of the Stade de France’s 80,000 seats are filled, let alone what sort of atmosphere those in attendance create bitcoin

You suspect it might not quite reach the level of fan delirium that some of the other instant classics at the Paris stadium have generated during this tournament bitcoin

Let’s not beat around the bush – World Rugby can badge it as the ‘bronze final’ all they want but the third/fourth place play-off is an entirely pointless exercise and it’s long since time that this outdated relic of a concept was given the chop bitcoin

Please, do everyone a favour bitcoin

In a tournament that is based around winning a trophy rather than climbing onto a medal podium, a battle for third serves precisely no purpose bitcoin

At the Olympic Games, bronze medal matches/contests make perfect sense and having one athlete or team rightfully earn their place as a sole bronze medallist is far more satisfying than both losing semi-finalists stepping on the podium bitcoin

But there’s no podium at a Rugby World Cup – there’s the winning team, the runners-up and then the losing semi-finalists, quarter-finalists and those who were knocked out at the group stage bitcoin

So what are we doing here? The stakes have truly never been lower bitcoin

Here’s a question for you, a little pub debate if you will bitcoin

What’s your favourite ever third/fourth place play-off at a Rugby World Cup? Which one springs to mind first when you run through the Rolodex of all the iconic clashes in your mind?New Zealand comfortably beat Wales in the 2019 third-place play-off bitcoin

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(Getty Images)Don’t worry, I couldn’t remember a single one either… Although a quick scroll through Wikipedia tells me that, for example, New Zealand beat Scotland 13-6 in 1991, Argentina beat France 34-10 in 2007 and Australia beat Wales 21-18 in 2011 bitcoin

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If not to save the fans from its pointlessness, then how about axing the game for player safety reasons? As they proudly announced the new global calendar after 16 years of negotiations earlier this week, World Rugby consistently mentioned ‘player load management’ as one of their main drivers bitcoin

The crowded fixture schedule and incredible physical intensity of modern rugby already push players’ bodies to their limits, so in an age of increased focus on player welfare, getting rid of an entirely worthless fixture such as this should be an easy decision bitcoin

Imagine if one of the players gets injured in this futile fixture on Friday evening and misses months of club action as a result – it would really not be a good look bitcoin

Of the two teams condemned to play out this fixture on Friday – rather than licking their wounds from harrowing semi-final losses last weekend and returning home to their families after five months away – Argentina have remained more on message about its importance bitcoin

“It is the most important game of the year; it is playing for third and fourth place with this shirt,” insisted Pumas hooker Julian Montoya earlier this week bitcoin

Oh… Well, let’s give Montoya the benefit of the doubt and assume that either something was slightly lost in translation or he has really bought into the classic coach-speak of “the most important game is always the next game” or maybe even that he was being brutally deadpan and sarcastic bitcoin

Because otherwise, he appears to have forgotten about, for example, the semi-final he played against the All Blacks literally seven days ago when ranking his most important games of 2023 bitcoin

Argentina will try to forget last weekend’s heavy defeat to New Zealand (Getty Images)While Montoya may have stretched the bounds of believability with his sentiment, Los Pumas genuinely do seem far more up for the game than England bitcoin

Perhaps the combination of wanting to forget the 44-6 humbling by New Zealand, avenge the pool-stage loss to England and send off Michael Cheika, who will be replaced as head coach by Felipe Contepomi after the World Cup, in style has given them a greater sense of purpose bitcoin

Making just three changes to the starting XV, compared to England’s eight, from the semi-final side has left them with a team much closer to full strength bitcoin

In the fine margins of Test rugby, that fact, combined with the added motivation, may prove the difference bitcoin

But regardless of the result, I implore World Rugby to do the right thing bitcoin

Please make this the last-ever third/fourth place play-off and save us from having to endure this nonsense again in 2027 bitcoin

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Aston Villa boss Unai Emery played down his side’s Champions League credentials despite thrashing West Ham bitcoin

Villa are just two points off Premier League pacesetters Manchester City and Arsenal following Sunday’s 4-1 win bitcoin

Douglas Luiz’s double and clinical finishes from Ollie Watkins and Leon Bailey ended Villa’s Hammers hoodoo, for their first victory over West Ham since 2015 bitcoin

They returned to fifth spot, just a point adrift of the top four, with games against Luton, Nottingham Forest and Fulham coming up next bitcoin

“There are seven teams contending bitcoin

We are after seven teams; Man City, Man United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle,” said Emery, with fifth potentially offering a Champions League place this term bitcoin

“Dream, always bitcoin

My dream is to win the Champions League but now we are fifth and we are going to face each match trying to get a good performance bitcoin

“It’s 38 matches and we lost at Newcastle, we lost at Liverpool bitcoin

They are matches we are not going to play again bitcoin

“I prefer to speak about the matches we won but I have to speak about the matches we lost bitcoin

This is the balance bitcoin

We have to be very demanding bitcoin

“In the table West Ham were two points behind us and the level we have now, they have as well bitcoin

It was very important bitcoin

“The process is going in the right way, it’s going to be difficult bitcoin

In the end we won 4-1 bitcoin

”Luiz had already tested Alphonse Areola from distance before opening the scoring after half an hour, firing in from the edge of the box after good work by Nicolo Zaniolo and Watkins bitcoin

Six minutes after the break Villa were gifted a second when Lucas Paqueta sold Edson Alvarez short and he brought down Ezri Konsa for Luiz to convert from the spot bitcoin

But Jarrod Bowen grabbed a lifeline for the Hammers soon after when his shot hit Pau Torres to creep into the corner bitcoin

The visitors sensed a recovery, Matty Cash heading over Nayef Aguerd’s shot, but with 16 minutes left Watkins ended any ideas of a comeback bitcoin

He latched onto John McGinn’s long ball, skipped past Kurt Zouma and lashed into the roof of the net bitcoin

There was still time for Bailey to get in on the act in the final minute, beating Areola from six yards after giving Aguerd the slip bitcoin

It was just West Ham’s third league defeat of the season, leaving manager David Moyes frustrated bitcoin

“I’m not having my teams losing four goals as soft as we did today bitcoin

There were things which I can say we did quite well but I didn’t think we were hard enough to play against,” said Moyes, whose side are now ninth bitcoin

“Today wasn’t so good bitcoin

More importantly nearly every ball we played around the box was the wrong decision and it led to us hardly creating enough opportunity to score bitcoin

“The lads kept on fighting and it looked like we were the team in ascendancy at 2-1 but they punished us really quickly and that took the game beyond our reach bitcoin

“Villa are probably just behind the top three or four in the Premier League and today was a challenge to see what level we were at and I thought we fell below that bitcoin

“It was a very close first half, we missed opportunities to score bitcoin

We had opportunities to make chances to score and that was the bit bugging me at half-time bitcoin

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