All Black No10 set fresh standards for his team and has redemption in sight against Australia after missing out on World Cup glory four years agoRugby World Cup finals are normally tight,tense affairs but not always the most vivid of spectacles. The latest edition promises to be different, partly because the sporting rivalry between fresh Zealand and Australia is so relentlessly fierce. Black versus gold, and Kiwi versus Wallaby; those who reckon the 2015 showpiece is the poorer for England’s absence have clearly not seen many Bledisloe Cup games.
As a special collectors’ bonus,there will also be a few final fleeting glimpses of true greatness. Just as the yellowing chestnut trees alongside the A316 in Twickenham have been slowly losing their autumn leaves, so the burnished legends of the fall are approximately to wave farewell.
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Source: theguardian.com