3 Jul 2019

Real Men Wear Black Revisited

From Nights, 9:30 pm on 3 July 2019
France's Serge Blanco (2nd left) is tackled while passing the ball by All Blacks Koteka (left) and Bernie Fraser (right).

France's Serge Blanco (2nd left) is tackled while passing the ball by All Blacks Koteka (left) and Bernie Fraser (right). Photo: (Photo by MICHEL CLEMENT / AFP)

Twenty-seven years ago, Trevor McKewen’s book about New Zealand rugby heroes celebrated a stoic, machismo national character. He recently wrote a piece for The Spinoff

Tonight we are joined by Trevor and sport writer Jamie Wall for whom the book was hugely important as a child. Trevor and Jamie investigate how we we talk about masculinity in sport and how that has changed.