BY STEVE DOUGLAS

So, it’s those Springboks once again for England at the Rugby World Cup.

The team that has handed the English more painful losses — physically and metaphorically — than anyone else on the sport’s biggest stage.

The team that beat them in two of the last four World Cup finals, in 2007 and 2019.

The team whose flyhalf, Jannie de Beer, drop-kicked them out of the tournament in the 1999 quarterfinals.

The team that has handed them their biggest ever World Cup defeat — 36-0 in the pool stage in 2007.

Do they have a score to settle when they renew their Rugby World Cup rivalry with South Africa in the semifinals in Paris on Saturday? Too right.

And England knows exactly how hard the task will be.

“They are a running threat, they are a kicking threat, they have got an incredible set-piece, they have got