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When Lions roared : the Lions, the All Blacks and the legendary tour of 1971

When Lions roared : the Lions, the All Blacks and the legendary tour of 1971

Book 2017

By 1971 no Lions team had ever defeated the All Blacks in a Test series. Since 1904, six Lions sides had travelled to New Zealand and all had returned home bruised, battered, and beaten. But the 1971 tour party was different. It was full of young, ambitious, and outrageously talented players who would all go on to carve their names into the annals of sporting history during a golden period in British and Irish rugby. And at their centre was Carwy...