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This piece follows on from my previous blogs on the warm-up matches, first Test, and second Test of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-first-test.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-second-test.html   Read more »

This piece follows on from my previous blogs on the warm-up matches and first Test of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-first-test.html Read more »

Watching the recent World Cup qualifying match between Scotland and England, I turned to my son and started boring him, as usual, with tales of my sporting childhood. Recalling the era where the England-Scotland fixture was an annual event, and a match that was eagerly anticipated, I felt grateful that I had grown up during this period. With so little live football on our televisions, the England-Scotland match was not far behind the FA Cup final in terms of excitement. Read more »

This piece follows on from my previous blog on the warm-up matches of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html Read more »

The first of a series looking back at the 1983 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand. Read more »