Twelve years after the Lions’ bloody battle in Pretoria, player welfare is still a concern | Gerard Meagher

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Attritional contests are things of the past but there has been no change to the exhausting number of games on the calendar

Gethin Jenkins of the Lions holds his eye after a collision during the second Test against South Africa at Loftus Versfeld in June 2009 in Pretoria.Gethin Jenkins of the Lions holds his eye after a collision during the second Test against South Africa at Loftus Versfeld in June 2009 in Pretoria.Last modified on Thu 29 Jul 2021 20.31 BSTisten to anyone involved in the British & Irish Lions’ agonising defeat by South Africa in the second Test in 2009 and one word keeps coming up: brutal.

 

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