What if … the Lions’ third Test in New Zealand had gone into extra time?


Robert Kitson imagines an alternative reality in which Sam Warburton’s boys had the chance to win the series against the All Blacks rather than settle for a draw

It was a drizzly evening in Auckland as Sam Warburton slipped out of the British & Irish Lions’ team hotel by a side entrance and climbed into the passenger seat of a sponsored car. The journey across town to the All Blacks hotel would take only a few minutes but Warburton was in no mood to rush.

This was the biggest week of his life and he wanted to feel absolutely certain he was doing the right thing.

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