Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful
What’s happening here?
IT is, I reckon, March 11, 1888 at Plymouth docks and onboard the RMS Kaikoura the “England” rugby tourists have gathered for a quick group shot as they depart for their inaugural rugby tour of New Zealand and Australia. The squad was indeed predominantly English but also included a handful of Scots and Welsh so historians are agreed it can retrospectively be dubbed the first Lions tour. Nor were the English contingent – with three exceptions – capped pla...