'A huge deal': New Zealand's rugby-starved fans prepare to head en masse to stadiums

This weekend Super Rugby Aotearoa becomes the first major sports league in the world to return from the Covid-19 shutdown without crowd restrictions It has been a long three months but rugby fans in New Zealand are finally relishing the prospect of the sport’s return this weekend, when the gates are flung open to unrestricted crowds for the first time in the Covid-19 era.With New Zealand having declared itself coronavirus-free and moved to Alert Level 1, capacity crowds will be allowed into stadiums as Super Rugby Aotearoa gets under way on Saturday. Related: All Blacks great Dan Carter makes …