Colin Sheridan: The Lions as a modern concept is utterly idiotic
Let us once again gather our collective rugbying delusions, pour them into an overpriced jersey, stick them on a Qantas flight, and pretend that this Lions tour is the very heart of rugby tradition.
Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
If the British and Irish Lions tour didn't exist, would we invent it?
Let us, for a moment, imagine a committee of highly-paid rugby executives – all pale of face and plummy of accent – gathered around a mahogany table in Twickenham, plotting their next great adventure.
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