The Sporting Almanac Podcast · Jack Senior and Ben Davies
The British & Irish Lions
·1 hr 34 min·5 clips
The referee blew the final whistle four minutes early to deny the 1974 Lions a clean sweep, later explaining, 'Look boys, I have to live here.'
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A touring myth that casts the Lions as rugby's hardest test of selflessness.
The episode treats the British & Irish Lions as rugby's clearest case for selflessness: the I and the me have no place here. From there, it traces why a touring side drawn from a small cluster of islands in the Northern Hemisphere came to carry the sport's greatest honour, and…
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