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Article: BLOEMFONTEIN OR BUST
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- The Press
- Article date:
- July 24, 2009
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Thirty three years have passed since the All Blacks played the
Springboks at Bloemfontein. RICHARD KNOWLER talks to a couple of
survivors of the 1976 tour about secret backline preparations,
wildly passionate fans and skulduggery.
It doesn't have Cape Town's beautiful mountain or Durban's sub-
tropical weather and beaches, but Bloemfontein will always hold a
special place in New Zealand rugby history.
The last time the All Blacks played the Springboks in the Free
State capital, a land-locked city on South Africa's high veldt, was
in 1976 and the snow that fell on the eve of the highly-charged
second test was in stark contrast to the white- hot atmosphere of
the test played out in front of ...