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3 weeks agoTony Ward: 'For the only time in my career, when not in the starting line-up, I prayed and prayed NOT to be called into action'
The 1980 tour of South Africa by the British Lions was not solely a rugby tour. It was a 70-day, all expenses, paid anthropological study of one of the world's most troubling, most diverse and most interesting countries. The 30 players from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland who left London would not have missed it for the world.
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