How apartheid stopped the British and Irish Lions in 1986 and shaped Nigel Carr’s career
40 YEARS AGO: Robert Jones of the British Lions tackles Wayne Smith of the Rest of the World but Smith has already completed his pass, during the rugby union match between the British Lions and the Rest of the World at Cardiff Arms Park on 16th April 1986. Pic: Mike Brett/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images.
Nigel Carr was still a student at Regent House in Newtownards in the mid-1970s when his school coach predicted a future where he would go on to play for the British and Irish Lions in South Africa.
David McMaster would be half right.
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