Booze, women and wet passport: Zebras kick back to life

Rapidly disappearing out of the public radar, the Zebras kicked firmly back into the spotlight this week. But it took a bitter concoction to get the nation talking about a team that once held fans spellbound with dizzying football and giant slaying acts.  It has become the norm that a Zebras side can quietly fly-out to play a critical encounter, without a single person waving the blue, black and white flag.

This is in sharp contrast to the days when the whole country would be thrown into undiluted frenzy, as the boys went into a war of attrition with the continent’s big boys, and emerged unscathed. The joy that the Zebras brought blew into every corridor, with some artists jumping into the recording studio to pay glowing tribute.