First a warning. I have deliberately written this column a couple of days ahead of the third Test series-decider in Cape Town because I didn’t want to be swayed or mollified by a one-off game. That frankly would have been cheating.
The tour as a whole and the Lions concept generally is the subject de jour, or should that be the last 120 minutes given the current “Timeless Test” feel to these stop-start TMO infected games.
I speak as a Lions diehard who pleaded with you a few weeks ago not to lose faith and insisted that the Tests would be full of derring-do and sprinkled with stardust desp...