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Crowds or not, the British and Irish Lions Tour must happen

SPRINGBOKS World Cup winning coach and National Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus, a few months ago, declared that if his world champions had to go to Britain and do battle with the best of the British & Irish Lions then that is what they would do to make the Test series happen.

Erasmus was among the most influential voices in promoting the virtues of the Lions as an entity. He had made his Test debut against

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