The Springboks like to remind South Africans that they play for their countrymen, but have they considered that this heart-stopping rugby could kill the lot of us? For the second week in succession, the Rugby World Cup 2023 one-point kings managed to lose the rugby game and somehow win the fight, emerging as 16-15 winners in a semi-final in which, for 75 minutes, there seemed to only be one team - England. In a game that somehow jangled the nerves even more than the cliffhanger in the quarter-final against hosts France on Sunday, Jacques Nienaber's men only hit the front for the first - and the last - time in the match in the 78th minute.

Source: News 24 October 22, 2023 17:13 UTC