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When four tries by the Lions were kicked off the park

NEVEN MacEwan, left, played in the Test match which did more than any other to ridicule rugby as a running game, the one in Dunedin on July 18, 1959 when six New Zealand penalties trumped four Lions tries.Towards the end, the majority of the 41,000 shoe-horned into the old Carisbrook stadium gave vent to their embarrassment by cheering for the tourists.

The referee, Alan Fleury, a local Otago boy and therefore at home in every sense, awarded the three late penalties from which Don Clarke booted the All Blacks to the most hollow of victories, 18-17. Mac-Ewan, in the thick of it alongs...

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