‘We do have too many matches in Auckland’

Meeting financial targets doesn’t seem such a problem for the RWC head honcho after the Christchurch disaster. Brendan O’Brien spoke to Mike Miller.

IT’S a month before New Zealand and Tonga open proceedings at the 2011 Rugby World Cup and the IRB’s head honcho is sat at ease in a Dublin hotel wearing an open-necked shirt and an air of calm that belies the approaching bedlam.

Mike Miller, who also doubles up as MD for Rugby World Cup Ltd, is a picture of health. Tanned and trim, he is all smiles and bonhomie whether or not there is a dictaphone under his nose. It is impossible to imagine Sepp Blatter — his counterpart at FIFA — being as open and informal so close to football’s extravaganza.