Think I’ll pass on this one thanks Bob…..
Think I’ll pass on this one thanks Bob…..
Think I’ll pass on this one thanks Bob…..
why for?
Opens old wounds Denny, just like last year…..
fair enuff
I've never watched a replay ............... mebbe this w/end.
Great ending 
BB
I was living in Durban and never saw a single match in the WC tournament that year. For insatnce the day the semifinal against the French played at Kings Park was played as trustee of the Albert Luthuli Trust I had to attend a meeting when Mandela came to open the newly built Albert Luthuli Center in Groutville and could not even watch that match,
It was a day when it rained so badly that the match took place that it nearly could not be played since the playing field was flooded and the semifinal could nearly was not played - but Louis Luyt got a company to drain the pitch as SA would not be in the final two weeks later if the match did not take place, Due to a red card in a round robin match by one of the greatest rugby idiot ever if the match in Durban was not played the French would have been in the final and not SA. Afterwards a Zulu told me that the forefathers blessed the day because Mandela's second name in Zulu means rain in English, .
However, I obviously watched the final on TV and about an hour or so after the final whistle I left the flat where I lived on the corner of then West Street and the Marine Parade and there were tens of thousands of mainly Black people celebrating the victory in the Streets of Durban especially in the area where I lived - near the sea and oppossit the street from the then Durban aquarium.
And I wonder whether the famous Suzie also organized that celebration as well. 
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Yes I wonder why South Africa have not had another world cup.
I remember that French game.
The French scored a try that was disallowed.
The rugby world has always been really pissed with that tournament.
No - the answer is simple. The Technical Committee recomended tha SA be the hiost country ad the 6 Natuions lot conspred to have the Grench hosting the WC - i ws in fact totaly unexpected and cme from collusion between France and Rngland nd the NH Countries thought by holding the WC in the NH s it would benefit heir teams against the SH teams.
As fate would have it the conspirators got fucked by the finger of fate.
“No – the answer is simple. The Technical Committee recommended that South Africa be the host country, but the Six Nations conspired to have France host the World Cup. This decision was unexpected and resulted from collusion between France, England, and the Northern Hemisphere countries. They believed that by holding the World Cup in the Northern Hemisphere, it would benefit their teams against those from the Southern Hemisphere.
As fate would have it, the conspirators were undone by the hand of fate.”
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