When the Scottish and Welsh pioneers landed in New Zealand for the first World Cup, they saw an advertisement that made them think they had been duped. And the more they saw of it, the more convinced they became.
To the uneducated eye, a television commercial of a farmer extolling the virtues of a nifty little Japanese tractor looked harmless enough. It made the more senior warriors of the first British countries to fly halfway round the globe hopping mad.
The farmer in question happened to be the captain of the All Blacks, Andy Dalton, then clinging to the forlorn hope of recovering from inj...