SOMEONE, somewhere can be relied upon to take offence at something said tongue-in-cheek. As Steve Hansen knows.
Confronted with the notion put forward by ex- Wallaby stand-off Mark Ella that Mickey Mouse could have coached the World Cup-winning All Blacks given their collective skills, the real head coach dismissed the notion with a riposte that deserved another laugh.
Hansen made the point that ‘Mickey Mouse couldn’t coach the All Blacks’ because Mickey ‘was in Australia, coaching the Wallabies’. It went down with a few sensitive souls across the Tasman like t...