How can you not love a man who puts his head in all kinds of dark places in the name of two causes — Edinburgh and Scotland — to which he was not born but whom he has taken to his heart, and him to theirs?
How can you not love a man who doesn’t even care what you call him? WP Nel has always been happy for people to choose between those initials and the more formal ‘Willem’, but there are certain terms on which we can all agree to describe his 12 years in this country: committed, consistent, resilient and classy, both in how he has played and how he has held himself throughout.
Neither side could possibly have imagined such a lengthy
