Problems persist but win over All Blacks shows new Wales team has broken through

So that’s that fixed then. Wales are back, and all is right with the world. Suddenly the dysfunction at the union, the financial plight, the disputes, the emptying stadiums, the defeats – oh, the defeats – feel a very long way away. The All Blacks have been beaten. Seventy-three years of hurt, no more need for dreaming.

The euphoria in the Principality Stadium, however many people were there – or, more pertinently, not there – seemed as eerily familiar as it was cathartic. This was how Cardiff used to feel on match day.