Scotland waits with bated breath as Warren Gatland prepares to name Lions squad for South Africa tour THE Scottish rugby community is not instinctively resurrectionist, but you get the impression that another paltry allocation of Lions when the squad for this summer’s tour to South Africa is announced at lunchtime today could be the spark which sets off a tinderbox of unrest. There will be salmon-coloured chinos and Barber jackets marching in protest down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile if Hamish Watson doesn’t make the cut. Glasgow Warriors fans will gather outside Scotstoun to stamp their feet and shake their fists in fury if none of Zander Fagerson, Ali Price and Fraser Brown are involved. Down in Hawick, it will be the biggest setback to the town since Covid caused the Common Riding to be cancelled should Stuart Hogg somehow be left out.
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Time got the better of Sexton - not just Farrell, Russell and Biggar
Irish captain’s omission from Warren Gatland’s squad was tough but at 35 his durability has come into question. Garry Doyle By Garry Doyle Thursday 6 May 2021, 5:38 PM Thu 5:38 PM 45,100 Views 26 Comments
Gatland and Sexton on the 2017 tour.
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THERE IS AN old story about Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson that has never aged.
It dates back to a January evening in 1988, a lurid setting in Atlantic City, where the high rollers from New York’s showbiz set had forked out top dollar for ringside seats. Holmes, remember, had more or less finished Muhammad Ali’s career eight years earlier. Now he was the one taking a beating as Barbara Streisand, John McEnroe and Joe DiMaggio looked on.