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… the reality that the All Blacks come in two forms: the Brazil of the oval ball game, and the panicky, exasperated fumblers of many a World Cup anticlimax. Given licence to play, New Zealand will smash your dreams. Assailed from the first whistle, they will scramble for their patterns and resent the interventions of lesser beings. This is a fault line in All Black rugby…
— Paul Hayward, the Guardian
