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Size matters so much in our new land of the giants

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
PETER JACKSON

Smallest of them all: Faf de Klerk
PICTURE: Getty Images

When the Lions clinched their one and only series victory in New Zealand, one man stood above the rest – Gordon Brown, Broon o’ Troon not to be confused with the former Prime Minister.
At 6ft 5ins the late, lamented Scot was the tallest member of a team whose feats in 1971 have yet to be matched. Compared to the Gullivers bestriding the Six Nations, a second row of Brown’s size would feel as though he had been shrunk to almost Lilliputian dimension.
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