The oval game has mastered what football keeps botching

Reported by Sunday World · 17 hours ago · Kgomotso Mokoena

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The orderly and decorous manner in which the sold-out Springboks versus All Blacks Test match at FNB Stadium was organised has left some of us, bona fide diski followers and reporters, a little embarrassed. It has left us asking ourselves why the same cannot happen when the 90 000 or so fans come…

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