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ALEXANDER PARKER: Giving the hatch boss a run for its money
IT WASN’T quite one of those epoch-making moments, to be fair. It wasn’t the attack on the World Trade Center, the assassination of JFK or Nelson Mandela walking out of Victor Verster prison. It didn’t change the world. But for English rugby fans, it’s still a moment hard to forget. In 1995, England had quite a handy rugby outfit. They’d stormed to a Grand Slam in the Five Nations under the captaincy of Will Carling — who is these days well worth a follow on Twitter, and in those days, was a pugnacious inside centre. So, there was more than just the disappointment of losing a game of rugby, when, at Newlands during the 1995 World Cup, a young Jonah Lomu ran through Port Elizabeth-born England utility back Mike Catt as though he wasn’t there. There was, if I recall, a sense that the game of rugby had changed, and that an exothermic talent from New Zealand had been responsible all by himself. This was a winger who could deputise for loose forward Zinzan Brooke, if it was required. He ...
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