The Battle of Rosario

Pasó el primer partido en Rosario del Rugby Championship. Los Pumas no pudieron hacerse con su primer victoria, a pesar de que los Wallabies venían heridos.
Pero qué noche! 40.000 personas en el Gigante, no entraba ni un alfiler. Por un momento, en los últimos 10 minutos cuando el estadio se volvió casi futbolero con un "hijodeputa, hijodeputa" para el árbitro pensé que ahí se terminaba el 3+1 para Argentina.
Inolvidable, y así lo cuentan los australianos.

  It was the first visit to Argentina by the Wallabies to play a Test since 2002 and the spectacle that greeted them when they first arrived at the ground was like nothing youngsters like debutant Cummins or Tapuai had ever contemplated before. The thumping noise and craziness of rugby Argentinian-style started more than an hour before kick-off with well over half of the sellout crowd of 41,000 already in their seats. The Estadio Gigante de Arroyito is daubed all over in the blue and yellow of the Rosario Central soccer team which calls this old-school concrete arena home. The blue-and-white Argentinian flags, the banners, the 20-cup beer trays being swept through the crowd, the blaring vuvuzelas, the music, the cheers when the home side started warm-ups, the whistling . . . it was the Wembley of South America when the whistle blew to start.

además: Something's brewing: time for this well-fed scribe to bid adios