THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

When it comes to talking about ‘carnage’ at the World Cup, nobody is more impeccably qualified on the subject than the only captain to win it twice, Richie McCaw.
Neutrals the universe over will look beyond the New Zealander’s incomparable record of 20 wins in 22 matches at four World Cups and marvel at how, over the course of 148 Tests, referees plucked up the courage on only three occasions to show him a yellow card.
Their leniency created the impression that McCaw imposed his own offside line to wherever he happened to be standing in the vicinity of every cont...