Like Dr Luyt, the game is still far too one-eyed

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

THE first World Cup dinner after a South Africa-New Zealand final since 1995 apparently ended without a single All Black wanting to knock the block off the Springbok-in-Chief.
That the last supper of RWC2023 passed off without a repeat of the argy-bargy at the first one almost 30 years earlier may have had something to do with the fact that Dr Louis Luyt (pronounced late) passed away 10 years ago.
None of the bigwigs invited to join the lesser wigs for Sunday night’s bash at the Palais Garnier, the 19th century opera house built as commanded by Emp...

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