Humidity levels are set to tip 80% in Port Moresby on Saturday but that will pale next to the fever generated in Papua New Guinea’s steaming capital when their beloved Kumuls face England in the quarter-finals of the Rugby League World Cup.
Most of the country’s nine million inhabitants, spanning 7,000 different cultural groups and 800 distinct languages, will stay up until long after midnight to watch or listen to their team’s bid to emulate previous successes over touring British Lions teams.
