IT’S time to conclude our ‘real time’ look back at the 1974 Lions tour which finished exactly 50 years ago yesterday with a 13-13 draw at Ellis Park. Was it an anti-climax? The hell it was! The draw still meant the Lions had gone through the 22-match tour unbeaten, the only team ever to achieve that in South Africa and, now that full length tours are a thing of the past, a record that will stand for ever.
The last two weeks of the tour were not entirely straightforward though. In fact they were packed with incident and controversy. There were still four fixtures t...