Whole New Ball Game

[First Test, Bloemfontein; South Africa 58 (30) - 10 (3) England]

As predicted on this very website England were given an absolute lesson by South Africa.

If it wasn’t bad enough that the England camp had been hit by a virus they were then hit by 15 bloody huge South Africans who didn’t take many prisoners, as Nelson will testify.

The worst thing this defeat could have been a lot, lot, worse.