PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

On a Tuesday afternoon at Anfield in the late autumn of 1993, All Black No.878 made a final attempt to divest himself of the shortest career in Test rugby.
The match against a Northern Division team during the tour of England and Scotland came seven years after Marty Berry’s one inter national appearance, one of such brevity that to say he ‘played’ against Australia that day at Eden Park is to risk being accused of exaggeration.
Berry hadn’t long turned 20 when his last-minute entrance in place of Frano Botica coincided with the Wallabies celebratin...