Narrow victories in all three knockout games show Springboks are masters of ending on the right side of small margins
The South Africa captain, Siya Kolisi, sings the national anthem with Steven Kitshoff at his side before the Springboks retained the Rugby World Cup.The South Africa captain, Siya Kolisi, sings the national anthem with Steven Kitshoff at his side before the Springboks retained the Rugby World Cup.
What does this look like in practice? Perhaps you see it in the 76th minute of a bruising and scarified World Cup final, when Jordie Barrett is racing through clean air with two runners outside him, and you, Pieter‑Steph du Toit, you know that if you don’t wrap him up in the next couple of seconds – and properly wrap him up, arms and wriggling hips and all – then New Zealand will probably eat up half the field. Yes, the lungs are screaming. Yes, this is your 26th tackle of the night.
There are times when South Africa’s rugby team can feel – illusorily, but persuasively – like the only thing really holding together this divided country, with its 12 official languages and infinite planes of ethnicity and history and privilege, with its endemic instability and its useless politicians. In reality it is a kind of utopian cosplay, a rolling 80-minute fantasy of what South Africa might be like if it truly were content and united.
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