Donal Lenihan: This is no longer what Lions tours are meant to be about
British & Irish Lions' Tadhg Furlong with Ken Owens in a scrum. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan
It’s hard to believe after all the talk about the Lions tour going ahead —be it on neutral territory in Australia, on home turf in Britain and Ireland, or as scheduled in South Africa — that the tourists are already one third of the way through their nine-game fixture list.
The big question now, of course, is how many of the remaining six contests will actually take place and will the test series survive the multiple outbreaks of Covid in the Springbok squad?
