Aussie journo Spiro Zavos finds it quite difficult to say nice things about the Boks. So when I stumbled on this little piece I just had to share it:

“The Springboks destruction of the Wallabies was the sort of defeat that gives massacres a bad name. This was a thrashing, a walloping and a devastation.

Go through the thesaurus to find all the words for a massacre - a general slaughter, utter defeat, destruction and so on - and you get a feel for what happened at the citadel of Afrikaner rugby pride and power, Coca-Cola (formerly Ellis) Park in Johannesburg.

The Springboks were the ferocious mongols of Ghengis Khan: and the Wallabies were the hapless villagers put to the sword and fire with a vengeance and brutality.

In the manner of wiping away the blood from a victim, lets get some of the statistics out of the way.

This was the greatest margin of defeat for a Wallaby side, 45 points in arrears, since the team started playing Test rugby in 1899.

It was the second-largest points total conceded since that awful day in 1997 at Pretoria when the Springboks ran riot and scored a total of 61 points to 22…”

To read the remainder from The Roar, click here