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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