This week’s guest is Chief Sportswriter with BBC Scotland, Tom English.
We discuss Tom’s new book about the 1997 Lions Tour of South Africa: the chaos and dysfunction that engulfed South African rugby after the famous 1995 World Cup win, why they nonetheless expected to beat the Lions, and how the Lions upset the odds.
We talk about the famous Jim Telfer, and how he has now redirected his demonic rugby energy into...gardening.
Tom also reflects on where things went wrong for Scotland at the Euros.
Plus: the misery of Irish rugby in the 1990s, and what it is like to cover the Old Firm divide.
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