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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IT’S time to dip back into the 1974 Lions tour again and 50 years ago today exactly – July 14 – a much agitated manager of the Marine Hotel in what used to be called Port Elizabeth was looking for Lions manager Alun Thomas to demand both an explanation and reparation. Why had all the fire hoses in his five star establishment been let off during the night and why were the swish carpets on a number of floors waterlogged and ruined?
It was a fair enough question and without bei...

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