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NICK CAIN
AUCKLAND was awash with red this week as thousands of Lions fans arrived here for the Test series against New Zealand. Over 20,500 of them, many digging into their life savings to defy the doom-mongers and Brexit panic merchants who dominate the airwaves back in old Blighty.
Those English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish supporters have travelled in hope of a first series win in New Zealand for 46 years, but also in the realisation that, come what may, they will have witnessed great sporting drama first hand.
The commercial benefits for New Zealand b...
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