BRENDAN GALLAGHER

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Comeback kings: France beat New Zealand in 1999

RUGBY MATTERS
REMARKABLE comeback victories were very much in vogue last weekend in the Rugby Championship and it’s reassuring to know that such ‘aberrations’ still exist in the controlled and micro managed professional game which seeks desperately to eliminate such romantic happenings.
New Zealand, aided by some odd substitutions from South Africa it has to be said, fought their way back from a 31-13 deficit against the Boks in Pretoria but in some...