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1. In 1989, the British Lions toured Australia for the first time since 1971. Unlike previous tours to Australia, the Lions did not play any matches in New Zealand, this being the first Australia-only tour since 1899. The side was captained by Finlay Calder . The Lions suffered a 30–12 defeat in the first test in Sydney on 1 July, then their ...
2 June – Channel 4 shows live rugby union for the first time when it broadcasts live coverage of Wales' summer tour. 31 August – Premier Sports takes over as broadcaster of the PRO14 Rugby. The agreement sees all 152 games per season broadcast live, with no less than 21 games (one per round) shown live free-to-air on FreeSports.
2. The 1910 British Isles tour to South Africa was the eighth tour by a British Isles rugby union team and the fourth to South Africa. It is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950. As well as South Africa, the tour included a game in Bulawayo in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe .
She began as a pitchside reporter at rugby union matches for S4C after the death of Ray Gravell in 2007. [3] Elgan has worked as a presenter on rugby union coverage on TNT Sports and its predecessor BT Sport. [4] [5] She became a regular on the S4C rugby chat show Jonathan, alongside Jonathan Davies and Nigel Owens from 2018.
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0 0. The 1888 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was a tour by a British rugby union team, known at the time as the "English Footballers", [ 1] throughout New Zealand and Australia. Although a private venture not organised by any official body, this was the first major tour of the Southern Hemisphere undertaken by a European rugby ...
In 1955 the British Lions rugby union team toured Southern and Eastern Africa. The Lions drew the test series against South Africa, each team winning two of the four matches. They won the first test by a single point and the third by three points and lost the second and fourth matches by wider margins. As well as South Africa, the tour included ...
1. 0. 0. 1. The 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia was the twelfth tour by a British Isles team and the fifth to New Zealand and Australia. This tour is recognised as the first to represent a bona fide British team [1] and the first to be widely dubbed the 'Lions', after the nickname was used by journalists during the 1924 ...