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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.
British and Irish Lions 2021: Who could be the bolters to tour South Africa?
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Kieran Hardy, Sam Simmonds and Simon Zebo are among the outsiders hoping to be named in Warren Gatland s squad
A 23-year-old Martin Johnson made his British and Irish Lions debut after only one England cap.
Jeremy Guscott s first Test try came in Lions red rather than England white.
Keith Earls was just 21, with two Ireland caps to his name, when he toured South Africa in 2009, while league converts John Bentley and Jason Robinson came from left field to light up Lions tours in 1997 and 2001 respectively.