SOME MARGINS are so thin, you can barely fit a slip of rice paper between them. Well, on the way to their fourth World Cup victory and a second in a row, the Springboks won all three of their knockout games by a single point.
It was that sort of campaign for them. Beaten by Ireland in their third match and scraping past France in a quarter, and England in the semi, this campaign was a slugger’s wonder for South Africa. There’s a saying, ‘There’s no pictures in the autobiography’ – you can colour anything in, in the retelling. Well, South Africa winning ugly was there in glorious technicolour. And it was compelling.
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