Today the spirit of camradiership and togetherness flowed through the spirit and blood of the people of South Africa just as in 1995 (RWC) and 1996 (CAF), today we are a nation united.
The decision by the Blue Bulls management to play their remainingSuper14 games (a semi-final against the mighty NZ Crusaders) and today’s final (against the Cape Town based Stormers) at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto was a masterstroke.
We the sports loving people of South Africa were the winners, the football world cup is less than two weeks away, our football team had two very credible results this week (a draw with Bulgaria and a win against Columbia) Our cricketers are 3-0 up in a 5 match series against the Windies
Today we were all Sowetans, tomorrow we will all be South Africans!
Oh!, I nearly forgot
The Bulls 25 Stormers 17
Boadicea's Chariot 
Good luck for the World Cup, Soutie, after watching Australia play New Zealand, I don’t believe they deserve the cup, they played like filthy swine 😦
Sounds good Soutie; but then I haven’t a clue.
Great stuff this sport!
As Araminta says
Sounds as though everyone is happy – and that is good. 🙂
Soutie, glad you’re on a high. (I won’t get into the morality of SA society post apartheid.)
Hi Soutie, I raced back from Harare to get to Cape Town in time for the game. And what a game it was. I guess the Bulls deserved to win, but I thought that the Stormers got the rough end of some of the ref’s decisions. Mind you Januarie’s try wasn’t. But, I would be interested to know what you thought of the noise of the vuvuzelas. I thought it was horrendous and I hope they do not become a feature of the World Cup, let alone any rugby games. Newlands has already banned them. There is an article in today’s Sunday Times decrying their use at soccer games. The writer much prefers the more traditional singing, as do I. http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article476668.ece/Nothing-kills-the-joy-of-soccer-like-a-bunch-of-wailing-vuvuzelas
Hadn’t got a clue what the vuvuzela was and had to look it up. Here it is for anyone interested.
Good to see you back Sipu.
Morning all
Sipu, I think that they are terrific, I was at the Bafana v Japan match played here, you hardly hear them!
I know that might be difficult to believe but here’s my explanation:
When you’re at the game the vuvezelas are of course blowing for almost the whole match, but from different parts of the stadium, so when you at an actual game the effect is somewhat muted. Watching on TV however the broadcasters have effects microphones covering almost every square inch of the stadium, (excluding the playing surface) this of course means that the TV viewer hears each and every blast as though it was situated next door to them.
I read Mondli’s column this morning (at my little coffee shop) I agree with everything he says but that isn’t going to change anything, I’m afraid he has to move with the times.
Here’s Zapiro’s cartoon which coincidentally appeared immediately above the column.
(I heard a couple being blown at the cricket in Bulawayo earlier today!)