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Boks must flip history to play Lions in 2021

MARK KEOHANE

THE world champion Springboks must play the British & Irish Lions in 2021 or wait until 2033 to face the famed men in red.

A postponement of the Lions eight-match tour of South Africa until July 2022, is an impossibility because of World Rugby’s 10-year calendar that simply cannot accommodate the tour at the expense of as many as 11 national federations' commitments and several other club competition structures.

The hyped Lions tour of South Africa, in its original guise, will not take place in 2021. Covid’s

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