well, the fantastic achievement made by South Africa on Saturday in Paris appears to be subject to attempts to make sweetness turn sour by those sore losers back home in England.
the gripe is a disputed try which was not given. i am no expert, but as far as i can see the referees and officials looked at it six or seven different ways and it was pretty clear that, at best, there was a 50-50 chance it was valid, but realistically it seemed correct not to give the score.
England, of course, are now claiming that they would have won if that score was given. not the case - SA's score would still have been the winning one, even if you added a try and a conversion to the England score. England just did not score enough to say that they would have won it.
it just seems that England cannot accept being beaten fairly and squarely. they have to blame someone when it all goes wrong, even turning on their own if need be. i cannot understand the mentality of always having to be a victim, which i suppose is why i choose not to live there any more. sometimes your best is just not good enough, under which circumstances you should just say "fair play" and congratulate the victor.
it would be nice if all could just put that incident aside and acknowledge that the best team won, the team which deserved to win won it.
and on that note, a huge round of applause to the proud South Africans in their triumph - well done, congratulations and may the celebrations go on for a good deal of time to come yet!!
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!
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