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Article: Limelight beckons for shy Du Preez Mark Reason meets the quiet man who shone against England and looks set to become a great
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 7, 2007
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WHEN THE tape recorders come out of our pockets Fourie du Preez
backs up against the orange concrete wall as if threatened by
gangsters.
His voice stops and starts like water from a blocked tap and his
eyes keep darting away like an iguana on the verge of a seizure.
Then from somewhere behind us comes the shout: "Look at the legend."
Many a true word and all that. Fourie du Preez, this plaintively
shy man, has been one of the stars of the World Cup.
Repeatedly Du Preez has been described as the best scrum-half in
the world and he has played like it. Even he admits that his
performance against England was "perhaps my best in a Springbok
jersey".
Yet backed up against the wall, his face ...