CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

Even at this advanced and supposedly enlightened stage of our development as a species, sport clings to its primitive side. Hence the sight last weekend of a highly accomplished participant in a bigticket event being comprehensively smithereened – monstered, marmalised, smashed to kingdom come – by a larger, more brutishly powerful force of nature while trapped in an exposed position and looking the other way.
The Pamplona Bull Run? Good call, but wrong. We are talking here of exclusively human business: a Rugby Union match between New Zealand an...