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/ 28 November 2003
Rational people, on becoming national cricket selectors, immediately start walking about on their knuckles while they forage for succulent roots. This, at least, is the firm belief of hosts of unappreciated armchair selectors. But even their fiercest critics must admit that sometimes, between chest-thumpings, they get it right.
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/ 28 November 2003
Anyone who thought that the prospect of an England win in the World Cup created an excitement in areas hitherto untouched by the game did not get to Brixton. The general feeling in Brixton could have been: if England do well in the final, maybe we will watch the next game.
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/ 28 November 2003
In seeking out the ”indispensable” fly patterns of the experts, I had inevitably to approach the grand daddy of South African fly-fishers, the always willing Dr Tom Sutcliffe. In the fashion of fly-fisherfolk he is of an eternally optimistic youthfulness that defies easy categorisations like age.
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/ 28 November 2003
Veteran Springbok winger Breyton Paulse has taken a swipe at the controversial ”boot camp” the national team were put through before the Rugby World Cup, saying at one stage he nearly cracked up. Paulse, who is coloured, also lashed out the lack of transformation within the team.
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/ 28 November 2003
The young in their millions have turned away from the solipsistic pomposities of Parliament, the point-scoring and willy-waving of men who who know as much about the people they govern as George W Bush knows of higher mathematics. The young have not lost interest in politics. Politics, of the kind represented at Westminster, has lost interest in the young.
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/ 28 November 2003
News of a ferry disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) overshadowed the Thursday meeting in Pretoria designed to examine the implementation of a 16-month-old agreement between the Central African country and neighbouring Rwanda.
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/ 28 November 2003
Here in the Dorsbult, we’ve been trying to ignore the World Cup. But it’s impossible. Not only has Jonny Wilkinson taken over from Naas as the best kicker in the world, but it turns out that instead of practising how to hold on to the ball in the wet, the Boks spent the weeks before their antipodean adventure learning how to wet their balls in the hole.
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/ 28 November 2003
A rare headed goal from Harry Kewell fired Liverpool into the third round of the Uefa Cup and left Steaua Bucharest cursing their luck in Liverpool on Thursday. The Australian winger’s 49th-minute strike was enough to secure a 1-0 victory that sent Gerard Houllier’s side through 2-1 on aggregate.
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/ 28 November 2003
The ghost from Orlando began the season as friendly as Casper – without any of the aggressiveness and hunger it displayed last season on its way to clinching the premiership title. Pirates began the 2002/03 season with six straight wins. This time around they meandered to a loss and several dismal draws.
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/ 27 November 2003
A Gauteng-based wildlife dealer is planning to import 16 old circus and zoo lions from Brazil, raising fears that the big cats will be used to feed the lucrative ”canned” hunting industry.