Writing in The Times, Nick Cain believes that South Africa's new stadia still have a way to go after their Lions tour debuts.
"Earlier this week the first game was played at the brand new Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. It's an impressive 48,600 capacity bowl with a brilliant white ship-sail exterior which has been built for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa at a cost of £83m. However, the opening game featured the oval ball rather than the round one, with the Southern Kings - a South African invitation team - attempting to rob the British and Irish Lions of their unbeaten record in a rough-house encounter.
"The Kings, who lost 20-8, were less successful in their mugging attempts than two armed robbers, thought to be bogus cops, who slipped through the haphazard security at the ground to relieve 25-year-old barman Trevor Sanderson of his day's takings after the match was over.
"A report in Port Elizabeth daily, The Herald, said Sanderson was behind a bar in the stadium when a man came in and started rifling through the money boxes, and he then noticed that he had an accomplice who was holding a gun. Both were dressed in blue uniforms with police badges on them "We had already closed and cashed-up," he said. "This one guy came out of nowhere and started fiddling with the money-boxes. I looked around and saw another robber cocking a gun, and a bullet fell out."
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