Warren Gatland ‘nervous’ ahead of Wales' World Cup opener against Fiji

Gatland holds the commendable record among Wales coaches of never having lost to a Tier 2 nation. Then again, Fiji are making a mockery of such notions

NERVOUS: Wales head coach Warren Gatland during the captain's run at the CEVA Campus, Bordeaux. Pic: PA

He may have masterminded some of Welsh rugby’s greatest triumphs, but Warren Gatland still gets nervous before matches. And he will before Sunday’s World Cup opener against Fiji.

“Definitely,” he said at Wales’s training centre in Bordeaux. “I always get nervous. I’d be worried if I didn’t. And I think nerves is always a positive. A little bit of trepidation focuses the mind.”