France captain Rafael Ibanez has been suspended for one match after admitting a charge of stamping on Argentina lock Rimas Alvarez Kairelis.

France captain Raphael Ibanez has been cited following an alleged stamping incident during last night’s World Cup bronze medal match defeat against Argentina at Parc des Princes.

FRANCE captain Raphael Ibanez insists the stakes remain high going into his side’s World Cup bronze-medal match against Argentina today.

RIMAS ALVAREZ KAIRELIS is confident Argentina will let their rugby do the talking after seeing the hype around the squad reach unprecedented levels following their qualification for the World Cup knockout stages.

Argentina will go into their World Cup Pool D clash with Georgia in Lyon having risen to fourth in the latest International Rugby Board world rankings – their highest position.

The Argentine Rugby Union have announced a 25-man squad for their European tour next month.

THE staging of the Heineken Cup final at Lansdowne Road today may seem to be a most bizarre decision by the ERC committee, but as recently as last Wednesday, when Celtic played Porto in Spain in the UEFA Cup final, we saw its parallel in another sport.