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Peter Jackson: How British and Irish Lion Bobby Windsor found a nice little earner…

Win or lose, the Lions, as identified beneath what used to be the Millennium Dome, will be paid circa £100,000-a-man for their five weeks in Australia this summer.
Some 50 years earlier, when the game avoided making an exhibition of itself like the plague lest overt commercialism eroded the amateur faith, The Invincibles received word of their selection in the usual way: via the Royal Mail in Britain and Oifig an Phoist in the Republic of Ireland.
For their unbeaten South Africa safari in 1974, encompassing more than twice as many matches (22) as the nine Down Under from next month, the...

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