“No one has climbed the dizzy heights to the stars like Lomu”
Jun 09, 2020
2 minutes
STUCK ON the runway in Cape Town, 19 June 1995; grounded. Like England the day before. Writing my column, I mused on the only possible subject: Jonah Lomu. A four-try demolition of England in a World Cup semi-final! The 20-year-old went from the gathering name in the sport to its global face. Overnight.
Rugby union’s Michael Jordan moment. I scribbled it down and
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