From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine One of the greatest matches in the history of the British and Irish Lions finished with 30 players and almost 48,000 fans…
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Rugby Union: Lions tour 2009 – first Test preview
From Paul Morgan, editor, Rugby World Magazine When a guy like Phil Vickery, who has won a World Cup, sits down in front of you and says: “Being involved in…
Rugby Union: Lions tour 2009: Southern Kings v Lions – Exclusive verdict
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine Southern Kings 8 The Lions 20 This match was exactly what I had expected from the first five fixtures in South Africa.…
Lions tour: Verdict from Lions v Western Province
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine At the start of the Lions tour if you had offered Ian McGeechan five wins from the first five matches on the…
Preview – rugby union: Lions v Western Stormers
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine THINGS ARE now starting to get very serious in South Africa. A huge number of Lions fans arrived on tour yesterday and…
Lions v The Sharks Verdict
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine ANOTHER match and another win for the Lions, but I am concerned that they will be mightily undercooked for the Test matches…
Rugby union: Lions v The Sharks Preview
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine You can smell the Test matches on this Lions now we are less than two weeks away from the first one, in…
Rugby union: Lions v The Cheetahs – Verdict
ANOTHER WIN for the British and Irish Lions, and another set of lessons learned for the men in the famous red jersey…but they quickly need to start handing out more…
Lions on Terrestrial TV
By Chris Tipping, rugby writer At the risk of sounding like one of those professional whiners who used to drive the old TV show Points of View; why oh why…
Rugby union: Lions v Golden Lions verdict
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine In one of my favourite episodes of Monty Python they said “nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!” Well, at Ellis Park we were…