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The South Seas psychopaths who put Samoa on the map

Samoa have been sitting near rugby’s top table for so long now it is sometimes hard to remember a time when they were anywhere else.

Yet, when they turned up in the United Kingdom to take part in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, there was such a sense of novelty around them that some of the coverage suggested they had come from the far side of a distant galaxy.