MY LIFE IN PICTURES… FRANCOIS LOUW
Pictures Getty Images & Inpho
A NOD TO BUTCH
“Before this game we watched a video of a previous time (2008) that Bath played Leicester, when we hung in there, never giving up. Butch James had played No 10 for Bath and we kept pushing and pushing and eventually Butch got through to score the winning try and did a really outrageous dive.
“The same scenario panned out in this game; we were trailing, kept pushing and pushing and then in the last few minutes I got a line break on the edge and ran through to score the winning try. That image of Butch went through my mind, so I tried to simulate that ludicrous dive, although I think he pulled it off with a bit more finesse. Thank goodness I didn’t injure myself.”
MY SPECIAL SARAH
“I met Sarah in 2009, so she was there throughout my ten-year Springbok career. We got married in 2013. She came to Japan for two pool matches,
