And the downright Lions’ 2017 tour
He was dining with his wife and a family friend at a city-centre eaterie when the trouble began – reportedly after a request for a photograph of the former England captain was declined.
“It was an unsavoury incident, with a drunken man who came over to our table and verbally abused a member of my family,” said 69-yearold Spencer.
“I asked him to go away, but he continued, so I stood up and he pushed me before his wife came over and took him away.”
QUOTE OF THE TOUR: ROBERT HOWLEY
SPENCER, a member of the Lions 1971 squad, is also a contender when he said of the Warren Gatland effect. “We set a Kiwi to catch a Kiwi.”
But the award has to go to assistant coach Howley when announcing the Lions were ready to unleash ‘rugby chaos’ on the Kiwis.
BIGGEST GRIPE: FUTURE TOURS
IT sticks in the throats of the Celtic nations how Aviva Premiership clubs have been calling the shots over the future of Lions tours.
English demands for trips to be cut from six to five weeks and 10 matches to eight has already been deemed ‘madness’ by Lions chiefs with a doomsday scenario where England players were left out.
Try telling the likes of Maro Itoje, Owen Farrell and Elliot Daly that a Lions tour is not up there at the very top of their rugby careers.