Peter Jackson: Surely now the Lions have no option but to go for broke?
British & Irish Lions captain Alun Wyn Jones after the second Test against the Springboks. Is the Welsh star’s starting spot up for discussion ahead of the deciding Test next weekend? Picture: Billy Stickland
The last time the Lions won a series decider they changed their captain and almost drove a vast congregation of Irish worshippers into voluntary excommunication as a consequence.
Brian O’Driscoll had been widely expected to borrow the armband from a hamstrung Sam Warburton for the finale against Australia in Sydney. Instead he found himself discarded from the team and the bench, with the captaincy passing to a prickly Welshman, Alun Wyn Jones.
