New Zealand legend Jonah Lomu believes next year's Rugby World Cup in his homeland could be the closest yet. Sport24 reports.
"Lomu was in Florence to publicise his rugby camps and took time out from entertaining budding young rugby players to look ahead to next year's global showpiece.
"And despite being a veteran of 185 points in 63 matches for the All Blacks, he wasn't prepared to tip them for glory, even on home soil.
"Honestly this World Cup's probably the most open that there can be, you just have to look at the teams that got knocked over at the weekend," he said. "The All Blacks got knocked over by Australia and then you look at England who knocked over Australia itself, so it's anybody's ball game."