Francis Kean forced to resign amid homophobia allegationsFiji Rugby Union key supporter of Beaumont campaignFrancis Kean, the chairman of the Fiji Rugby Union and a key supporter of Bill Beaumont’s bid for re-election as World Rugby’s chairman, has stood down from the global governing body’s council amid allegations of homophobia and discrimination.
Pressure has been mounting on World Rugby and Beaumont following new allegations published in the Sunday Times which claimed to have heard a record of Kean, while he was in charge of the Fiji
prison service, in which the paper alleged homophobic language was used.