BLOEMFONTEIN OR BUST

The Press | July 24, 2009| | Copyright

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 ...

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