RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
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...