{"id":11483,"date":"2013-07-07T17:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T07:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:15:52","slug":"the-lions-2013-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11483","title":{"rendered":"The Lions 2013 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Australia 21 British and Irish Lions 23<\/h2>\n

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British and Irish Lions win the series 2-1<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

For the uninitiated, the concept of the British and Irish Lions Tour is that they are a team comprised of the best players from England, Wales, Ireland (and sometimes Scotland) who compete once every four years in tours to New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.\u00a0 They visit these countries on a rotation so we only get a Lions tour of Australia once every twelve years which makes it one of sports rarest spectacles.\u00a0 There have been Wallabies that have played over ten years and a hundred caps that have not played against the Lions.<\/p>\n

This year the Lions visited Australia and had an entertaining tour including a nail-biting three games series against the Wallabies where the first and second games were determined by penalty kicks after the full time siren.\u00a0 Even though the final score in the decider suggests a blow out, as late as the fiftieth minute, there was only 3 points separating the two sides.\u00a0 It was only after Lions fullback Leigh Halfpenny cracked the Wallabies backline, sending Jonny Sexton over for a try that the flood gates finally opened.<\/p>\n