Archive for August 23rd, 2007


Kris Boyd

Bafana lose to world’s worst footballers

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 3:00 pm

The Scottish press called them insipid, uninspired and ponderous; while the good news for Bafana is that they were talking about Scotland, the bad news is that Carlos Alberto Parreira’s first foray into Europe with his new team still ended in …

Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar? No, Monty Rhodes…

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 2:50 pm

It was going to happen eventually, but the suggestion was that it would be employed with a healthy dose of irony. Instead, the first coining of England’s Monty Panesar - the latest in a long line of slow left-armers who …

Bryan Habana

Bryan Habana: Skinstad desciple?

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 11:35 am

The most famous tongue in rugby has been somewhat inconspicuous since its return to South African rugby, Bob Skinstad’s aesthetic trademark apparently confined to younger days (remember the American Swiss advert, with the diamond tongue stud?). But if Wednesday’s training …

AmaGlug-glug

AmaGlug-glug, Nigeria all square

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 11:28 am

With three years to go until the World Cup, Carlos Alberto Parreira will be weighing up his playing options, and while the bulk of his attention will be on the core of players who travelled to Scotland for Wednesday night’s …

Jordy Smith

Jordy Smith, like, styling bru

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 11:17 am

Last week’s win in the Sooruz Lacanau Six Star Pro propelled 19-year-old South African surfing superstar Jordy Smith past the 11 500-point mark in the World Qualifying Series, guaranteeing the teenager a place alongside surfing’s elite next season; there’s no …

JP Pietersen

What did JP Pietersen’s hand do next?

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 11:00 am

In the grand sporting tradition of ‘What happened next…?’ - Feverpitcher fondly remembers Bill Beaumont and Ian Botham cheerfully jousting on ‘A Question of Sport’ - here’s one from Tuesday night’s Springbok debacle against Connacht…
Have a close look at the …