BRENDAN GALLAGHER
RUGBY MATTERS
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Red devils: Steve Smith kicks ahead in the 1979 win over New Zealand as Roger Uttley gets set to take off

LAST month we witnessed possibly the single greatest England performance in our lifetime when they battered New Zealand – and 40 years ago to this very day, I would argue, the North produced the definitive performance by an English divisional or county side.
I refer, of course, to the North’s 21-9 win over the All Blacks at Otley when they outscored the previously unbeaten tourists &n...