SPIRO: Boks (just) and All Blacks (superbly) beat the quarter-final curse

Most of the talk about the 2015 Rugby World Cup quarter-finals before they were played had been about the possibility of France repeating its iconic victory over the All Blacks at Cardiff in 2007. The French ‘off with their New Zealand heads’ possibility was the big story. This is understandable, as that Cardiff 2007 result […]