YOU’VE seen the DVD many times – Living with the Lions – but frankly that’s only the half of it. The tour of 1997 was an extraordinary one for the media as well and although our world and that of the players and management overlapped constantly like a Venn diagram we also have our own memories and tales to tell.
In the best Lions tradition I was a late call up –a bit or a bolter – for the stricken John Mason then the Daily Telegraph correspondent. I had just completed travel plans for England’s tour of Argentina, followed by a much-anticipated ...