By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know

At the Melbourne Cricket Ground on July 25 next year, the Lions will shatter all box-office records since first setting sail for the Southern Hemisphere more than a century ago.
For the first time, they will play in front of a six-figure crowd: 100,000 fans generating the best part of £20 million in ticket sales.
Never will so many have paid so much for a game of rugby south of the Equator.
That the Wallabies are on the bones of their backsides and the visitors long past their sell-by date as a missionary expedition to remote corners of the Empi...