'Fact' is fiction: William Webb Ellis had nothing to do with the invention of rugby

Bob Fordham, the Australian referee, blows his whistle and Grant Fox, the great New Zealand out-half, sends the ball tumbling through the sky.

'Fact' is fiction: William Webb Ellis had nothing to do with the invention of rugby

Bob Fordham, the Australian referee, blows his whistle and Grant Fox, the great New Zealand out-half, sends the ball tumbling through the sky.

A horde of All Blacks rip across the grass of Eden Park in their home city of Wellington and set about the Italians who are standing under the ball.

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