Springboks v All Blacks: Five takeaways as Rassie Erasmus’ men take Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry trophy after ‘barely breaking stride’ in Baltimore

Following the Springboks’ 43-28 win over the All Blacks in Baltimore, here are our five takeaways from the final Test of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry.

Fifty years on, and the very same 3-1

The last time South Africa won a Test series against New Zealand, the All Blacks had toured for four Tests and lost three of them, the world was arguing about apartheid and honorary white status rather than about rugby, and 25 African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympics over it. That was 1976. Half a century later, the Springboks have beaten New Zealand over four Tests again, by exactly the