Long after the final whistle had gone, the cry rang out around Westpac Stadium and across Wellington: “Lions! Lions! Lions!” The sound must have carried all the way across the Cook Strait. It is probably still echoing around the South Island now. The Lions are not used to beating the All Blacks. No one is. They had not lost at home since 2009, here in this city since 2003, or to this team since 1993. Until now.
It started, like so many good stories, on a dark and stormy night, the kind that beats you back inside as soon you step through your front door, the weather so foul that the sensible thing to do was pull the curtains and wait for morning. It never got any better, but the Lions fans did not care. It was not that the rain had stopped, only that they did not notice it.
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