PETER JACKSON VERDICT
Nobody could be sure what the Springboks made of all the jingoistic noises coming out of London before the match, of contingency plans for an England victory parade through the capital on Tuesday and gongs all round.
The tub-thumping headlines left no room for doubt, from Lord Nelson’s ‘England Expects’ to Elgar’s ‘Land of Hope and Glory.’ Maybe the outsiders really did turn a blind eye but their reaction suggested they had digested every Anglocentric word as a motivational feast.
They then proceeded to do to England what the favou...