The All Blacks are world champions and deservedly so. But I have to admit I got very excited when Le Bleus (wearing white, how were the jerseys this WC? England: looking like All Blacks, playing like England!) started working them over in the second ...
As Frik du Preez might have said: We take their line-out ball, we smash them in the scrums, we kill them in the rucks, but the score still says Ozzies.
Keo had a lot to say about it in his column: "I haven’t met a South African rugby supporter w...
If betting odds are any indication, then New Zealand will play England in the final of RWC 2011. The weekend’s results have caused a major shuffle at the New Zealand TAB. While Australia and South Africa remain as second and third favourites respec...
Unlike the Fifa World Cup where even a favourite team can be eliminated in the pool stages, the outcome of rugby's premier tournament is far more predictable. The winner must be one of New Zealand, Australia or South Africa, with England and France i...
The faithful will be ecstatic, the doubters unconvinced as the Springboks retained their record of never having lost to the All Blacks in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
It was 41 years since Dawie de Villiers’s Springbok team smashed All Black drea...
The Wallabies don't often win in South Africa, but Durban must be their favourite city. Three of their only four away Tri-Nations victories against South Africa have been played at this venue. Fourteen-Nine. The Kings Park clash was a low-scoring, ti...
I was watching my son’s rugby team play Kasselsvlei on Saturday morning and so I missed the televised All Black/Springbok Tri-Nations clash at Westpac Park in Wellington. The night before, I had chuckled at a Facebook warning sent to a friend liv...
Stranded in an empty stadium at Edgbaston on June 17 1999 and agonising over the tied cricket match that ended SA's championship hopes, someone had a vision of the future: it's World Cup 2011 and Alan Donald's punching the air and high-fiving with ec...
I secretly rejoiced when Springbok coach Peter de Villiers was cleared of misconduct charges related to comments made during a Fox TV programme. It probably irked our Australasian friends intensely that the presiding authority was a South African bas...
I took history as a subject at school. There were only eight of us in the class, the more pragmatic having opted for biology or geography. The teacher's name was Van der Merwe and he tutored in a high-pitched squeaky voice. But I never regretted his ...
Peter Church is the author of the dark thriller, Bitter Pill published in August this year.
He is a proud supporter of South African sport, especially the Proteas and Springboks. His earliest sporting memory is listening to the muddy 1970 Springbok-All Black second rugby Test on the radio in his Dad's car. He stills manages the odd cricket game for the renowned Ridge CC in Cape Town. His previous novel, Dark Video was published by Struik/Random House in South Africa 2008 and New Holland in Australia 2009.
