“SOMETIMES I could feel the bones moving but there was little pain.” Those were the understated words of Andre Joubert after he had miraculously played a 1995 World Cup final and semi-final with three broken bones in his left hand.
Joubert’s Springbok coach, Kitch Christie, put his modest fullback’s achievement into a superman perspective. “The guy is not human. I cannot believe such bravery,” said Christie. Typically, Christie was economical when it came to lavishing praise on his players in public, so that was a telling statement.
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