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In words and pictures, the pain and glory of life on tour

Brendan Gallagher looks through his library to assess coverage of the Lions over the decades

Part of the Lions tradition, for many decades anyway, was has been the ubiquitous Lions tour book. Tour DVDs and then wall-to-wall live TV coverage have virtually killed off the genre in the last 30 years or so but before that it was, along with daily Press reports, how the Lions story got told.
Whisper it quietly but before World War II the Lions were not that big a deal in Britain although they were always high-profile in New Zealand and South Africa. As recently as 1950 – one of the ver...

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