Rugby
The complex eligibility debate at the heart of the British and Irish Lions squad
Late on a Thursday night in Melbourne, the Tuipulotu family gathers, hoping for a homecoming. Kept awake by the twin stimulants of caffeine and nerves, Sione’s mother, father and grandmother wait and watch as the British and Irish Lions squad is revealed thousands of miles away. The fates have aligned wonderfully, a Lions trip back to Australia falling in a year in which their kin had captained the Scottish clan; now all that is left is to see if the centre of their attention has done enough.
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