MY LIFEIN RUGBY BOB HILLER
THE FORMER BRITISH & IRISH LIONS, ENGLAND, SURREY AND HARLEQUINS FULL-BACK
IPLAYED 19 games and scored 219 points for the Lions, on the tours to South Africa in 1968 and New Zealand in 1971, but I never played in a Test and that was fair enough. People thought I ought to be bitter about that but in the first one, Tom Kiernan was captain and he played magnificently, and on the second tour JPR was braver and better than me, so I didn’t mind.
Lions tours were fantastic, it was such a privilege to be on tour. They both lasted three-and-a-half months...
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