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1989: The Lions Return to Australia

A Tour Years in the Making

This article is adapted and extracted from the new edition of The British & Irish Lions: The Official History by Clem Thomas, Greg Thomas and Rob Cole
When the 1989 party arrived in Perth they were the first to only visit Australia on a Lions Tour since the Rev. Mullineux’s side in 1899. It was also the only sizeable Tour to Australia since 1959, when the Lions played six matches there.
The new-style Lions Tour was cut back even further than in 1983 (18) to a dozen matches, but whether Australia had the strength and facilities to sustain even a ...

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