The All Blacks won their first 28 games against Ireland, which led to a superiority complex
Ireland's Tommy Bowe and Paul O'Connell dejected after Ryan Crotty scored a late try to beat Ireland in 2013. Photograph: James Crombie/Inphohas a night all to itself next Friday. Even on the official Six Nations website they are moved to ask if this is rugby’s favourite grudge match. If so, it wasn’t always thus. It was not much of a rivalry, never mind one tinged with any kind of grudge.’ cage on several occasions.
That is the record-winning margin in the history of the fixture but there were plenty of other embarrassing days for Irish teams, as when outclassed 63-15 and 45-7 at Lansdowne Road in 1997 and 2005, or when beaten 66-28 in Yarrow Stadium in 2010 or 42-12 in Eden Park a couple of years later. Conor Murray, Jared Payne and Jamie Heaslip celebrate Robbie Henshaw’s try, which sealed Ireland’s victory over New Zealand at Soldier Field – their first over the All Blacks in 111 years. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
But Ireland have now won five of the past nine, and Soldier Field has been eclipsed by two wins in the Aviva and a historic series comeback win in New Zealand. Admittedly, the All Blacks will claim that they have won the two most important ones in this sequence, namely two World Cup quarter-finals. New Zealand's players applaud as Ireland's outhalf Jonathan Sexton leaves the pitch. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty
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