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'It’s kind of torture to have to watch the show’

'It’s kind of torture to have to watch the show’

It’s time to put on music, it’s time to light the lights…

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One of the seminal albums of my youth was “The Muppet Show”, and of particular delight was the ability of Waldorf and Statler to spin on a dime and switch from thinking everything was wonderful to terrible, or vice versa, in a matter of seconds, which feels suitably emblematic of where we are in relation to the flagship team of our national …

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Scotty Stevenson is a broadcaster with Spark Sport and TVNZ. A contributing writer to a range of publications, he is also the author of six sporting biographies.
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