Gregor Paul
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How the Springboks have built the national identity the All Blacks lack (opens the original)
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Baltimore, a city in desperate need of colour and vibrancy, was flooded with both on the morning of September 12. The city’s waterfront was so jammed with Springboks fans wearing green that it looked like a lawn was being laid. South Africans were everywhere, with enough Afrikaans being spoken to suggest it was mostly expats who had come to Baltimore for the chance to see the Springboks make history. But that sea of green was made up of more than South Africa’s diaspora. There were Springbok-jer
The infamous drinking session that led to an All Blacks rebirth (opens the original)
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These days it’s common practice for elite rugby teams to have collaborative leadership models. But this wasn’t the norm in the first decade of professionalism. Back then teams had authoritarian coaches who worked with the captain to drive every aspect of the set-up. This was the way the All Blacks operated, too, until everything changed after a crushing defeat at Ellis Park in 2004, and a monumental drinking session. A few weeks before the All Blacks left for this year’s tour of South Africa, th
Fabian Holland carries Dutch colonial shame into Springboks clashes (opens the original)
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It’s maybe a good job that Fabian Holland has such an impressive frame, for he’s carrying some of the shame of his forefather’s past. His All Blacks teammates are mostly unaware of South Africa’s political history, or at least seem to be, but Holland has a deep knowledge of it. He grew up in the Netherlands where Dutch colonial history was taught at primary and secondary school, and before he was 10, he knew the word apartheid – its meaning and context. “There is no way of hiding it that the Dut
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