EVER since Keith Murdoch stepped off the team bus on that wintry Monday morning in Cardiff, those left behind clung to the faint hope that one day he would turn up and solve the disappearance of All Black No.686.
Whenever Tane Norton spent reflective moments on the enduring controversy of that fateful weekend in December 1972, he would find fleeting comfort from the possibility that one day Murdoch would be reunited with the friends he left sitting in the team bus almost directly outside Cardiff Arms Park.
Norton, the hooker who would captain the Kiwis against the Lions five years later, wa...