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Sad day as blind Fleury bails out the All Blacks

YOU don’t often hear a New Zealand crowd cheering loudly for the opposition so you know something pretty special must have happened at Dunedin in 1959 when 41,000 New Zealand voices started, as one, to chant for the Lions with just two minutes left on the clock.
For the previous 78 minutes their team had been run ragged by a Lions team that had scored four tries while all New Zealand could offer up was the boot of Don Clarke who potted over a succession of penalties awarded by local Otago referee Mr Allan Fleury.
With 15 minutes left the Lions had stretched their lead to 17-9 before a...

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