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- Title
- By the Balls
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
When the All Blacks walked onto Eden Park for the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup final, the squad was far from united. The aftermath of the blighted Springbok Tour of 1981 had split New Zealand's top rugby players into two camps; those who supported continued sporting contact with South Africa, and those who didn't. Grant Fox and Wayne Shelford joined a 1986 rebel rugby tour of South Africa, but David Kirk and John Kirwan stayed home. In this excerpt from the award-winning documentary, Kirk t...
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- Video
- Date created
- 2019
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/by-the-balls-2019
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