Last night’s enthralling game of tag rugby between Munster and the All Blacks saw the New Zealanders sneak a late 2 point victory but that’s not stopping Munster fans claiming another famous victory.

They did the mash, the Munster mash

It puts in mind the famous day in October 1978 when Munster beat a massively hungover All Black team 12-0. The victory has gone down in the annals as the second most ‘never hear the end of it’ achievement in sport after England’s World Cup win in 1966.

Last night’s defeat may have seen the All Blacks win the game on the scoreboard but in pubs across the province Munster fans were claiming the spoils. “Ah the points don’t matter a jot”, said Gervaise O’Callaghan, a distant and much less handsome relative of Donncha O’Callaghan, “the fact is we did that little gay dance before they did and, even if I do say so myself, we had much more rhythm. I think it shows that Munster rugby is a force to be reckoned with”.

“It’s something we should do before every game”, said John Ryan of Limerick, “but we could take it to a new level. Them All Blacks do the same old dance before every game. We could do a different one each time. Imagine Munster v Toulouse and before the game starts we bamboozle them with a full-on Macarena. They wouldn’t know what’s hit them. Next time we play Leinster we’d have them beaten before kick-off with a modern twist on the habanera and there’s not a team in world rugby that could cope if we introduced a revolutionary cinque-pace/mashed potato combo”.

But not everyone was impressed with the Munster dancing last night. “I thought they looked like twats”, said Kiwi barman Clint Finn.