WELLINGTON — As the All Blacks and Springboks prepare to meet in Christchurch on Saturday, this week also marks the 35th anniversary of the most bizarre clash between the old rivals, the so-called flour-bomb Test of 1981.Anti-apartheid protesters in a light aircraft buzzed Auckland’s Eden Park during the match, dropping flour-filled paper bags on players and spectators.The teams agreed to proceed with the match, despite All Blacks prop Gary Knight being felled by one of the projectiles and violent clashes between police and demonstrators outside the ground."We caught them completely off-guard," John Minto, one of the protest organisers, said of the aerial escapade."The police knew we were going to turn out in numbers at Eden Park and had turned the streets around the ground into a fortress, with barbed wire and barricades."But when the plane came over there was nothing they could do. On the ground we were elated, it was so dramatic and inspiring."The context for the stunt was the mo...
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