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Article: Lions are given a bruising rehearsal; RUGBY UNION: McGeechan pleased as tourists maintain their 100 per cent record.
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2009
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Byline: Andrew Baldock
Southern Kings .......................... 8 British & Irish Lions ................. 20
THE British and Irish Lions won a game of brutal intensity at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium after their opponents attempted a softening-up exercise before next Saturday's first Test.
The tourists did not escape unscathed though, as prop Euan Murray and fly-half James Hook both went off injured inside the opening 15 minutes.
Murray suffered a sprained ankle, while a dazed Hook ...