The Mighty Springboks walked away from their first Tri-Nations game against New Zealand with a comfortable win. It never looked like we’d lose and I never thought we would either! People in the UK are in total shock, they can’t believe the All Blacks lost. The British Lions were crushed 3-0 in New Zealand and since then the All Blacks have been heralded by everybody here as the greatest side ever to play rugby. NO, the lions were just shite, and the Kiwis aren’t that great. As I said before, they are there for the taking and thats exactly what Sout Africa did!
Big day for us, it has taken about a year but we have finally clawed our way back to the pinnacle of world rugby and resumed our status as the worlds toughest team. I liked this quote from Pat, who incidentally was at the game:
Saturday’s game was brilliant and, like I said, I’ve never seen Newlands that way before: a sea of optimistic, always noisy – to say the very least – fans. But a strange after-match atmosphere, which it took me some time to understand. I expected screaming hordes of arm-in-arm supporters running amok around Cape Town, but it was all way more civil than that. If it was a closer-fought match, where the lead was passed back and forth, the fans would probably have been more hectic afterwards. But the fact that we led the whole way, meant that everybody was quite chilled after the game – serene and quiet, rather than manic and elated. And then I realised that everyone looked proud more than anything else.
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