Is There Silver To Be Had From New Zealand Rugby?
September 2007, and the rugby World up is taking place in France. As seems to be the thing in global tournaments these days, some games are held in a different country, so rather bizarrely, New Zealand and Scotland are playing in Scotland. That’s odd as it gives an extra advantage to the Scottish, but I’m more interested in the profit potential of another strange thing about this match… In the run up to the game, the teams toss to see who is designated as the ‘home’ team. It doesn’t make a huge amount of difference, but it does mean the home team gets to wear their normal choice of kit. Scotland won the toss, and New Zealand therefore had to wear an ‘away’ kit. Instead of their famous all black kit, they came out in what they called ‘silver’ jerseys. It looked grey to me, but I’m happy to go with silver. The thing is, the Scottish team had jerseys which had panels of colour, some dark blue and some in a blue so light that it looked grey. You might be ahead of me on this one, but with
