Thank God we’re not a bit like that here.
Did you ever hear of an allegedly “robust” Wexican call Liam Gunne or something close to that. He had a leading role in the documentary Gary Kirby’s Finger.
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Genuinely saddened we lost Regis. Possibly the greatest gameshow host ever.
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Brian McKechnie who kicked the winning penalty for New Zealand that day at Cardiff Arms Park after that business involving Andy Haden was a dual international. A few years later McKechnie was involved in one of the most notorious incidents of bad sportsmanship in one day cricket, albeit that time on the receiving end.
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Stop it
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Alan Parker, RIP
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Ah feck
He obviously wasn’t on the road to welleville
RIP. An actual celeb for a change
Outrageous cheating, the worst I’ve ever seen on a rugby pitch. Akin to Henry in the Stade de France. The Welsh were right not to forget.
The All Blacks are the most horrible cunts in sport. Surely to god a man that would take a dive like like must be juicing. I’d say the whole team is filthy.
@ChairmanDan, thanks for making me look this up. Rugby seems to have been a far superior sport back then?
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He directed Pink Floyd the Wall too. R.I.P.
The Welsh were no angels either. That Welsh team of the 1970’s are rightly still eulogised for the scintillating running rugby their backs produced but the Welsh forwards were every bit as cynical and hard nosed as New Zealand.
The English referee that day Roger Quittenton subsequently claimed that the match winning penalty awarded to New Zealand from that line out was for obstruction by Geoff Wheel of Frank ‘Filth’ Oliver but nobody really believed him.
Rugby was a lot more enjoyable in the amateur days, the long tours of the British Isles by the Southern Hemisphere teams and the British Lions tours. That match in 1978 was a little over a year after a very sour British Lions tour of New Zealand in 1977 and in an era before World Cups was built up as a de facto World Cup Final between the two powerhouses of the 1970’s.
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RIP. A great director.
These are, of course, the same All-Blacks that couldn’t raise a flag against an amalgamation of binmen and dockers that represented Munster on that tour. The AB’s that flopped in Musgrave park were never given a jersey again, so the story goes. They were broken men after the experience.
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What gets overlooked a little in the narrative is that match against Munster was on the Tuesday. The test match against Ireland was 4 days later. It wasn’t quite a second string team but only something like 6 of the starters against Munster started against Ireland on the Saturday.
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I thought the story was that the ABs all went out on the pass the night before
The previous time New Zealand played Wales in 1972, there was as much fall out afterwards, mostly involving the scorer of the match winning try, Keith Murdoch. That’s another interesting one for you to read up on if you haven’t heard it before.
You’ve been warned now
Haden was an interesting character. This from wikipedia:
Haden was an agent for various celebrities, including Rachel Hunter.[2] He was given the honorary position of Rugby World Cup Ambassador in 2010, but resigned the post after making controversial statements about a racial quota he alleged the Crusaders to be operating, calling Polynesians “darkies”, and then suggesting women raped by sports stars may be partly to blame.[13][14]
Haden was an unsavoury enough character. The type of character traits he showed at Cardiff Arms Park in 1978, resurfaced at various other stages in his life, as you’ve highlighted.
He’d probably make a good tfk poster.
I actually read that wrong, I thought he said that the crusaders had so many black players because women were being raped by sports stars. It’s late.