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How it was: North beat the All Blacks

Colin Boag labels those who have the temerity to be critical of the present English domestic structure as ‘the dinosaur brigade’. He writes that for anyone to suggest there may be lessons for English rugby to learn from previous generations is absurd.
Consider 1991, the year in which England played in rugby’s second World Cup final.
* Northern selections (chosen from a variety of modest clubs who have mostly vanished without trace in terms of vying for a place in the Premiership) had twice beaten the All Blacks in t...