France against New Zealand still offers all that is holy in rugby union

Teams meet in Paris on Saturday having delivered brutality and artistry in some of the sport’s greatest gamesIt is France-New Zealand time again. These words should conjure a frisson in any rugby connoisseur – and, by and large, they do. There are other more intense rivalries – the All Blacks against South Africa or Australia, for example, or England against, well, anyone – but for the promise of all that is holy in union, the brutality and the artistry, nothing quite sti