DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS
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The list of atrocities committed by various All Blacks over the years is long and memorable. The world's greatest rugby team has never been in doubt that eggs have to be broken to make an omelette.
As much as they have thrilled with their creativity and imagination over the years, they have been equally prepared to use brute force to get the job done and play outside the law if they have felt that's what was needed to win.
This dark side to the All Blacks was revealed in 1924 when Cyril Brownlie became the first man in test rugby to be sent off, accused of stamping on a prone English player at Twickenham.
The second man to be marched off was the great Colin Meads, when he was red-carded at Murrayfield in 1967 for kicking Scotland's fly-half David Chisholm in the head.
It didn't take long for the North to see that
