You have to laugh, even in the darkness. It’s better than the alternative. After countless stackings of the deck in favour of attack over defence by World Rugby, we have just been subjected to the most sterile, poverty-stricken Test series in well over a century of officially-sanctioned British and Irish Lions business trips. Six tries in three matches? Whoopee doo. Hang out the bunting.
The Lions are no strangers to playing in crimson-stained straitjackets rather than red jerseys: way back in 1968, they managed only a single try across four meetings with the Springboks, scored in Pretori...