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8 The Star Thursday June 3 2021 Winter High Tea Image is indicative only. Join us for a Winter High Tea at one of our three Christchurch villages Winter certainly is starting to settle in. These cooler months can make it just that little bit harder to get out and about. So here at Summerset we’re planning a month of warm winter High Teas and you’re invited. Just pop along to one of our three Christchurch villages any time between 10am and 2pm, on any Friday in June, and enjoy a range of delicious winter treats and hot drinks on us. Whilst you’re here, why not also get a taste of the Summerset life that our residents love so much. 10am - 2pm Every Friday in June Summerset at Avonhead 120 Hawthornden Road, Avonhead Summerset on Cavendish 147 Cavendish Road, Casebrook Summerset at Wigram 135 Awatea Road, Wigram Our teams would love to show you around our stunning villages and show homes. We’re looking forward to seeing you! 0800 SUMMER | summerset.co.nz SUM3118_37X8
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Thursday June 3 2021 The Star NEWS 9 Rugby, the Soviets, space travel, organised crime . . . and murder From Russia with a paratrooper, a ballet dancer and an underworld player. Thirty years ago this week, Canterbury played the former USSR at Lancaster Park. Chris Barclay revisits the game with Wiremu Maunsell, who was offered a place on the Soviet space programme after the tour RAUV MALIKOV, the chrome-domed hooker, was a paratrooper who landed in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded in 1979. The first five-eighth, Sergei Boldakov, was an accomplished ballet dancer, explaining his twinkle-toes. And the first choice centre, Igor Kuperman, followed a deeply flawed game plan when he turned to a short-lived life of organised crime after the USSR’s curious ground-breaking rugby visit to New Zealand. Although the All Blacks’ failed World Cup defence was the lead rugby story of 1991 here, the Soviets eight-match tour provided some odd talking points before they departed with a four-win four-loss record. They played Canterbury at Lancaster Park 30 years ago on Tuesday, where they suffered the first, and heaviest, loss on their schedule, a 73-15 hammering that sunny afternoon. Wiremu Maunsell played centre outside captain Andrew McCormick and has clear recollections of the opposition, and his marker. Now 54-years-old and working as a pool safety inspector in Brisbane, Maunsell also lined up against Kuperman for a New Zealand XV in the penultimate game of the tour in Hamilton. “He was a nice guy, a small guy but hard,” Maunsell told The Star. “After the last game I gave him my New Zealand XV jacket. I knew I’d never wear it again. You’d never go around town wearing a New Zealand XV jacket, you’d get something thrown at you. “I said, ‘You have this’ and he was rapt. I never heard from him afterwards,” he said. “In those days you had to write, you didn’t have text messages, mobile phones, or Facebook.” Kuperman, one of few members of the tour party to utter or understand rudimentary English, was actually murdered in Siberia a decade before Facebook launched in 2004. According to a three-line report in The Moscow Times, dated November 11, 1994, Kuperman, the captain of Russia’s international rugby team, was found with a single shot to the head in a pine forest in his home town of Krasnoyarsk. Another report said Kuperman was a member of a criminal group in what was then regarded as the underworld capital of Siberia. “The choices you make … it’s really sad to hear that about him,” Maunsell said. Although the Soviets were soundly beaten, Maunsell gave them credit. “They had some really big forwards and really quick backs. They were good guys, they just didn’t have that background and history with rugby, that’s all,” he said. “They were athletes, they just had to learn the art of the game and if they’d picked that up more they would have done a lot better.” Touch judge Terry Marshall reckoned learning in a rugby school of hard knocks wasn’t exactly a priority; the tour summary in the 1991 edition of the New Zealand Rugby Almanac drew the same conclusion. Marshall ran the line at Lancaster Park and seven days ‘After the last game I gave him my New Zealand XV jacket. I knew I’d never wear it again. You’d never go around town wearing a New Zealand XV jacket, you’d get something thrown at you.’ – Wiremu Maunsell later he refereed the match against Otago in Carisbrook. “It’s a little bit from memory, but I think the assistant coach (New Zealander Duncan Dysart) said he could only get them together to practice once a week,” he said. “They enjoyed themselves. They weren’t out and about ripping it up, they were just enjoying being in New Zealand. It was a great chance to get away from restrictions.” Some players headed to Lyttelton once they realised it was a port of call for compatriots on fishing vessels. • Turn to page 10 JUNE DENTURE GIVEAWAY ENTER TO WIN Book your FREE no-obligation consultation in the month of June and go into the draw to win a free full set of dentures* (Valued up to $4,250) *Terms & conditions apply 914 Colombo St | Ph: 03 365 2859 www.cosmeticdentureclinic.co.nz
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