Mapimpi try-double ends Japan fairytale

By ADAM ELLIS
SOUTH AFRICA banished the terrors of Brighton by running out easy victors over Japan to bring the host nation’s World Cup to an end at the quarter-finals.
Springboks captain Siya Kolisi said: “It took a lot out of us to keep on fighting but credit to my boys, we ground it out.” What was a miracle for Japan four years ago on the English south coast looked open to a repeat in Tokyo when veteran Springboks loosehead Tendai Mtawarira dump-tackled opposite number Keita Inagaki on ten minutes but referee Wayne Barnes elected to show only a yellow c...

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