By Brendan Gallagher

You could write a short book on how England somehow managed to lose that match in the final stages and yes I would argue some bang-average refereeing played its part as well as yet another example of stage fright, brain fade and inexplicable substitutions.
I would also point to the extraordinary fact that New Zealand didn’t have one player binned after the most cynical exhibition of off-the-ball tackling I’ve seen for a very long time.
Once they realised that Angus Gardner was not going to get heavy with them in that respect they simply tackled or obstructed anything i...