The Rugby Football Union and the England head coach, Steve Borthwick, have furiously hit out at World Rugby for not allowing the “victim” Tom Curry to “have his voice heard” after clearing South Africa’s Bongi Mbonambi on two counts of racially abusive behaviour towards the England flanker.
Curry is said to share the RFU’s “great disappointment” after World Rugby announced it had found “insufficient evidence” to proceed with disciplinary action against the South Africa hooker. Minutes after World Rugby’s decision was announced, Mbonambi was named in South Africa’s side to face New Zealand in Saturday’s World Cup final and the Springboks subsequently stated he had denied the allegations “from the outset”.
