By NEALE HARVEY
BRITISH & Irish Lions bosses will play hardball over their schedule for the 2021 South Africa tour to avoid the kind of fixture shambles that pockmarked previous campaigns.
RFU chief executive and Lions board member Steve Brown attended a ‘plan of attack’ meeting in Dublin last week and revealed exploratory talks with Premiership Rugby are underway.
Last year’s tour of New Zealand saw the Lions take to the field against the Provincial Barbarians just three days after completing their 12,000-mile trek south – a situation exacerbated by the refusal ...