OZ OPTION FOR LIONS

BRITISH & IRISH LIONS bosses will meet to discuss an offer from Australia to host this summer’s series with South Africa.

The proposal to move rugby’s greatest tour 7,000 miles was made by Hamish McLennan, chairman of Rugby Australia, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

It is one of four options the Lions board will debate this week. Cancellation of the tour is not among them. “Ultimately it’s their call,” McLennan, above, told the Sydney Morning Herald. “What we learnt from the Tri Nations last year and the tennis that’s happening now is that Australia can successfully stage global tournaments in a Covid world. It’s particularly tough in the UK and South Africa at the