by Paul Thomas | Dec 4, 2015 | Americana
Paul Thomas2015-12-04 Who is this? “His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything... 
by Paul Thomas | Nov 14, 2015 | Canon Media Award 2016, Sports
Paul Thomas2015-11-14 And with a single result we were free. The All Blacks’ Rugby World Cup triumph is laden with significance but perhaps its single greatest merit from the New Zealand rugby public ‘s perspective is that it delivers peace of mind: for at least a few... 
by Paul Thomas | Oct 31, 2015 | Sports
Paul Thomas2015-10-31 Given that the build-up often verged on the surreal, the All Blacks’ Rugby World Cup quarter-final performance against France was appropriately out of this world. All week the talk had been of bogey teams and hoodoos, coups and smokescreens. Just... 
by Paul Thomas | Oct 29, 2015 | Sports
Paul Thomas2015-10-29 In November 2013, when the All Blacks were in London preparing to play England, a Daily Telegraph journalist exploited lax security to sneak into the hotel room where team meetings were held. It was a high-risk gambit – if he’d run into the... 
by Paul Thomas | Oct 17, 2015 | Sports
Paul Thomas2015-10-17 Given that New Zealand is the world’s leading exporter of rugby players, it’s perhaps appropriate that the All Blacks were on the receiving end of the most famous performance by a foreign-born player in international rugby history. Prince... 