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Wild spirit: Blair Mayne was a Lion and a founding father of the SAS

THE British Lions staged two major tours in the 1930s – and a third minor one to Argentina – but the entire concept of a representative British and Irish team was still evolving and, to be frank, still a bit hit and miss.
The 1930 tour of New Zealand represent everything – good and bad – we have grown to love about the Lions. It was selected in mystifying fashion, but the Lions nonetheless developed a dazzling back division that threatened to banish the Kiwis only to eventually be outdone by a la...

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