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50 years ago, the Lions start to sweat

50 years

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

At the start of the year, this column promised to dip into perhaps the greatest and most momentous rugby tour of all – certainly from a British and Irish perspective – in real time so to speak and relieve and re-evaluate some of the greatest or most pertinent moments. I refer, of course, to the triumphant, historic Lions tour to South Africa in 1974.
Fifty years ago today the Lions were sweating away at their pre-tour training camp at Stilfontein halfway between Klerksdorp and Potchefstroom in North West Provi...

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