RugbyU: Beyond a choke as All Blacks join legion of losers

From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: October 8, 2007 | Copyright information

AAP Sports News (Australia)
10-08-2007
RugbyU: Beyond a choke as All Blacks join legion of losers

by Dave James



PARIS, Oct 8, 2007 (AFP) - Question: What have the All Blacks, Czech tennis
player Jana Novotna, NFL side the Buffalo Bills and a host of red-faced English
footballers got in common?

Answer: When the pressure's on, they've all choked and the meltdown has
been public, painful, and impossible to forget.

Just ask New Zealand's rugby players.

They routinely trample all before them but when the World Cup comes round
every four years, the All Blacks are all a tremble.

...

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