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A calm, collected and emotionally cold Winston Reid. Marty Melville / Photosport

Having sat through a good portion of the 90 minutes of All Whites’ nothingness served up at Eden Park, I was feeling a bit toey.

It was a glorious early spring day. One of those rarities in these parts with little wind and only the vague threat of a shower. I thought of all t…