CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

"People might think it’s arrogant,” said Rian Oberholzer, the chief executive of the Springbok domain, just the other day, “but we think it’s the greatest rivalry in rugby.” Try as we might in this nonconformist corner of the paper, it’s difficult to mount an argument against either assertion. No one in the union code has a deeper-seated superiority complex than the reigning world champions; Tests between South Africa and New Zealand are the high peaks of the sport.
There are very good reasons to rejoice in the idea of the Boks and the All Blacks resuming “pr...