ACCORDINGto reports by people who know about these things, Liverpool FC will be playing cup matches in different continents next month within 24 hours. Those with long memories will be inclined to greet such an inconvenience with a shrug.
So what? The All Blacks have been there and done that, playing official Test matches in different continents, not in 24 hours but on the same day, September 3, 1949.
They lost both, to the Springboks in the third Test at King’s Park, Durban a few hours after the All Black Reserves, including 13 new caps, had gone down to Australia in the opening Test...