To go along with a good training top, why not also consider these official Lions match shorts too? Perfect for the pitch, the VapoDri fabric performs in all the ways you would want it too, especially in terms of evaporating sweat. Given the tour will be succeeding a year that has been entirely awful and we want to forget it – we thought we would discuss three reasons to look forward to the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa in 2021. So began 109 years of raising Cain. The 1968 Lions were accused of being the "worst-behaved team ever to tour South Africa" by the Johannesburg Sunday Times. The sage rugby writer JBG Thomas refuted this on the grounds that, unlike at least one lot of their predecessors, "they have never set fire to a railway carriage". That may have been true. But a couple of them did incinerate a pile of blazers belonging to their team-mates in a bonfire on the tarmac at Kimberley airport after what was described as an "airborne cheese and wine party". Much like the official Lions jersey, it has a low-profile white collar and it is also made from 100% recycled polyester which is a sustainable construction we can all get on board with. If you like to keep things simple then this Lions t-shirt might be the model for you. Made from a blend of cotton and polyester, it is versatile enough to be used just about anywhere from the stadium, to the home.

This protection has been paired with stretch and also breathability thanks to the lower section which transfers moisture away. Get your hands on the fantastic new British & Irish Lions 2021 range right now. British & Irish Lions 2021 Accessories & Gifts

Canterbury British & Irish Lions Singlet

On those extra cold days, training in shorts can be an ordeal but this shouldn’t be the case because Canterbury makes pants that can be trained in too. In the midst of all this carnage there was an extremely irate hotel manager, shouting and screaming." For some reason, when Willie John, naked but for his pants and pipe, asked him what the matter was, the manager snapped and said he was going to call the police. Quite right too. Modern media coverage does not allow players to get away with much, and professionalism means that even if they could, many of them wouldn't want to. Under Gatland and Warburton, the Welsh turned all-but teetotal at the 2011 World Cup, allowing those who "feel they need it" a "bottle or two" of beer after a match to relax. You couldn't wring too many war stories out of all that on the after-dinner speaking circuit. But everyone remembers England's dwarf-tossing, ferry-diving escapades. Most people won't need reminding, either, which team was two points away from making the final and which was dumped out in disgrace in the quarters.

Willie John thought to himself, "I'd seen the riot police in operation in South Africa and didn't like the images my mind was conjuring up. I could see hordes of them rushing through the door and I didn't think they'd be asking for autographs from these drunken idiots." The Anglo-Welsh touring party after arriving in Wellington in 1908. Manager George Harnett is seated in the centre, with captain Arthur Harding holding a rugby ball to Harnett’s right. [Image: Getty]. In New Zealand in 1977 the local girls were crying again, out of boredom rather than rudeness. That was the tour when the infamous "Wanda from Wanganui" told the press that she had slept with four of the tourists and found them to be "lousy lovers, boring, self-centred, ruthless, always on the make and anything but exciting bedmates. Give me the down to earth Kiwi male any day". If you want a pair of pants that can perform in any weather condition, then look no further than the Canterbury Tech Fleece design above. What some of a certain vintage would call proper rugby shirts ceased to exist in Lions terms from the 1990s and heavy cotton jerseys have gone the way of the dodo. The 2021 British & Irish Lions Pro jersey is made from 100% recycled polyester but it is still red.The British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa is nearly upon us and given how big the entire event has become over the years, there are of course a multitude of ways you can show your support wherever you are going to watch the matches. Buy the official British & Irish Lions 2021 Rugby Shirts and kit. Authentic Lions gear from official kit suppliers Canterbury (CCC). Official British & Irish Lions Rugby Shirt 2021 The shirts the first touring captains, Bob Seddon and Andrew Stoddart, wore were very different to those paraded by Johnson & Co.