Owen had an operation in Manchester to insert a metal pin in his broken foot on 3 January.

BBC: WHEN THE INJURIES HAPPENED

South Africa made their intentions clear from the start, looking to employ their trademark power game and pin Fiji on the back foot.

CNN: South Africa overcome gallant Fiji

Firstly, Gall's goalkeeper Ronan Gallagher dropped a Paul McFlynn free before the ball was cleared but the custodian redeemed himself seconds later as he saved a close-range effort with an out-stretched foot after another McFlynn free had pin-balled around the small square.

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Instead, they seem to have wrestled large prey down by stabbing them with 15-foot spears in a kind of savage version of pin the tail on the bison.

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