Absolutely no one could have predicted such a massive shock so early on in the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup.

Who knew that the All Blacks were such a big set of whingers?

Just one game gone and New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen was ‘unhappy’ because the crowd at Wembley booed Richie McCaw.

According to Hansen, because McCaw is the world game’s most capped player he should be ‘treated with respect’ and be bulletproof when it comes to criticism.

Whatever bubble it is the All Blacks live in, they seem to have forgotten they are part of a public spectacle and if you are the bad guy – McCaw was sin-binned for tripping Argentina flanker Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe – then there is going to be a crowd reaction commensurate with the situation.

Even Lawrence Olivier, however much respect he deserved as an actor, would have expected to have been booed if he was a pantomime villain.

However, the nation of New Zealand had been acting peevishly even before the tournament began.

England’s 2003 World Cup-winner Matt Dawson’s ‘hakerena’ – performed as a promotional video for a clothing company – has been described as ‘shameful’ by plainly-irked Maori politician Sir Pita Sharples.

To be fair, the All Blacks squad treated it as the joke it was intended to be and, if anything, the only aspect that was ‘shameful’ was Dawson’s video wasn’t severely edited.

Turning the Haka into the Makarena is a pretty obvious joke and 30 seconds of Dawson camping it up for the cameras with his dodgy dance troupe really should have been enough by anyone’s standards – unfortunately the video lasts two minutes or more.

Just to digress, I have to say that Dawson does seem to think he is the funny one in the comedy double act that Question Of Sport has now become, when it is transparent that he is Syd Little to Phil Tufnell’s Eddie Large.

In fact, I have been intending, on the back of Tuffers’ performances in the charades finale to the show, to get in touch with the former England spinner bowler’s ‘people’ with a suggestion that may help further his career.

I feel that Tuffers’ comedic talents should be turned to a series of remakes of classic black and white films.

Harold 'Tuffers' Lloyd

Just imagine Tuffers as Harold Lloyd hanging from a skyscraper clock in a new version of ‘Safety Last’, or standing with a smashed house front all around him like Buster Keaton in ‘Steamboat Bill Jr’ or perhaps taking on board something more modern such as the role of Jacques Tati in ‘Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday’ – I bet the Chipping Barnet-born star’s mangling of the French language would actually add a lot to this movie.

Digression over and to be serious the fact that Hansen seemed rattled by the reception his side were given in London as they struggled to a 26-16 opening win over the South Americans is the real surprise of the tournament so far.

The All Blacks are usually quietly self-assured, so to be stretched enough to lose two players sin-binned in the first half of their opening game suggests they might not be as confident as everyone else in the tournament assumes.

Add in the Japan factor after the Brave Blossoms’ stunning 34-32 win over South Africa on the final play of their game, and maybe we will see a few more of the big guns having a whinge before the group stages are over.