I thought it was a bloody walloping,” Conrad said bluntly. “In order for you to choke, you must have had a sniff in the game. In South Africa, we’d say we ‘got moered’.” He then used a distinctly South African phrase to sum up the defeat. “Tonight, we got a proper ‘snotklap’ -- that’s an Afrikaans word for a real hiding, a smack you don’t see coming. “Not many people gave us a chance of making the semifinals when we left home, given our form before the World Cup.

Source: The Hindu March 06, 2026 02:16 UTC