PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

THE rain hadn’t long stopped sheeting down when the Grand Old Man of the World Cup made his belated entry in Toulouse on Friday night. Pieter-Jan van Lill, the greying flecks in his long beard only partially obscured by the strapping of his scrum cap, renewed his quadrennial struggle to end the longest losing sequence in the tournament. Before he could make his presence felt, another Namibian cause had been hopelessly lost.
The substitute lock had endured so many from three previous World Cups that when he arrived at the front, bitter experience wo...