Levani Botia’s family will walk up the mountain, start the generator and look for the television signal. Once the picture is sharp enough, the Fiji flanker’s friends and relatives will sit down and cheer on their Test heroes.
Some 10 hours’ time difference and 17,000km away from Marseille’s Stade Velodrome, in a little village in Naitasiri province, the locals will cheer on the Demolition Man in Fiji’s World Cup quarter-final against England. Botia earned his nickname at La Rochelle for a string of peerless back-row performances, bulldozing Europe’s best teams off the ball time and again.
