BRENDAN GALLAGHER COMMENT

Strength: Manu Tuilagi beats Handré Pollard to score England’s first try

One way or another it’s been a hell of a year – fractious, suc- cessful in parts, flawed in others – for the Springboks and that didn’t change much at Twickenham yesterday when we had a bit of everything.
Ultimately they lost a match they could have won but probably didn’t deserve to.
The arrival of the much vaunted ‘Bomb Squad’ sparked their customary barnstorming second-half rally and a run of ten successive penalties again...