On the eve of his departure, Isaac gets together with his best friend Billy Poe, a former high-school football star who has also failed to heed the edict that at 18 you should flee the rust belt altogether.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

The job became vacant when Safa fired Ephraim 'Shakes' Mashaba on the eve of the squad's departure to the African Cup of Nations finals in Tunisia, with his assistant April 'Styles' Phumo taking temporary charge of the team in Tunisia.

BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Applications flood in for SA job

"Martin Johnson is one of the dirtiest captains in world rugby, " Krige told a South African newspaper on the eve of his side's departure for Australia.

BBC: Krige in Johnson blast