LONDON (Reuters) - New Zealand will end another stellar year as rugby's undoubted number one team but the gap between northern and southern hemisphere nations has shrunk considerably after an autumn of unprecedented success for Europe.
Following the northern hemisphere's humiliation at last year's World Cup, when they failed to supply one semi-finalist in a tournament played in Britain, the southern nations have been hunted down and picked off with rare frequency in 2016.
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