RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Shameful: Segregated crowds in South Africa

The Lions tours of 1962, 1968, 1974 and 1980 are a stain on our collective conscience and even when the Lions finally succumbed to public pressure and bailed out ahead of the planned 1986 tour – 16 years after cricket called a halt to relations with South Africa – what happened? The All Blacks, in the guise of the New Zealand Cavaliers, greedily stepped into the breach and were paid handsomely to embark on another tour. Completely shameful and s...