From shambles to history-makers: Wales break 73-year hoodoo in astonishing 35-28 upset of New Zealand. Fans expected a massacre but witnessed a miracle, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI

It’s worth knowing there were almost 20,000 empty seats on the occasion of New Zealand’s latest visit to Wales. For those who decided to stay away, one can only hope it was for the sake of a wedding or a funeral, because they missed one of the most remarkable sporting upsets of recent times.

How to summarise the scale of this Welsh win? How to catalogue the sequence of unlikely events that made it possible? How to contextualise the sheer madness?

We should start with a statistic – this was the first time Wales have beaten the All Blacks since 1953. And

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