The British & Irish Lions has a history of heavy English biasThe new agreement between the RFU and the Guinness Premiership clubs has thrown the British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa into disarray.
With the players contracted to just one game a week, and appropriate rest periods after long-distance travel taken into account, the congested global calendar means that England's players could miss all three of the matches scheduled for the first eight days of the tour.
Why is it always about the English? In 2005, Clive Woodward selected 21 Englismen, but if the side was selected tomorrow then only Andrew Sheridan and Paul Sackey would be starters. So would it be that bad?
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