Brendan Gallagher is left to marvel at the missionary zeal of the game’s great tourists

Famous win: NZ Maori beat England in 2010

Have boots will travel. The Maori All Blacks have surely taken over from the Barbarians as Rugby’s great modern-day travellers – rugby missionaries spreading the gospel and having a good time while they are at it.
This Saturday they are at Soldier Field in Chicago – again – playing the US Eagles in a tasty curtain raiser to Ireland’s match against Italy. Next week finds them in Sao Paulo where Brazil will pit ...