'They don’t play a sophisticated game,' All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen said of England. 'Win the ball, give it to a big bloke and run hard.'
The All Blacks paced around the field in shock, unsure of what brick wall they had just crashed into. It had been 12 years since New Zealand had lost a single game at a Rugby World Cup; 12 years and 18 matches since anyone had so rattled the most powerful rugby nation on earth in the sport’s most prestigious tournament.
Now, in Yokohama, Japan, the All Blacks were trying to make sense of England, and how this team all in white had brought New Zealand’s reign as world champions to a violent end. It didn’t take long. To anyone...
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