7 h. ago British Lions win first tour game on Australian soil but potential injury crisis brews

WESTERN FORCE 7-54 BRITISH & IRISH LIONS: Tomos Williams suffered a hamstring injury at Optus Stadium to leave coach Andy Farrell sweating on his scrum-half options

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7 h. ago Lions vs Western Force LIVE: 2025 tour result, latest updates and reaction after first tour win

Andy Farrell’s side face their first test Down Under after Argentina defeat

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8 h. ago Ian McLauchlan dressing room tribute ahead of Lions' tour opener in Australia

Scotland prop remembered in Australia

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9 h. ago Lions vs Western Force LIVE: 2025 tour match stream, latest score and updates

Andy Farrell’s side face their first test Down Under after Argentina defeat

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10 h. ago Lions vs Western Force LIVE: 2025 tour match stream, latest score and rugby updates

Andy Farrell’s side face their first test Down Under after Argentina defeat

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11 h. ago Lions captain Dan Sheehan's sports star girlfriend and his family's rugby careers

Dan Sheehan has been named British and Irish Lions captain for their opening Tour game in Australia this weekend - and he will be supported by his girlfriend, Katherine Egan

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12 h. ago Western Force vs Lions LIVE: 2025 tour match stream, latest score and rugby updates

Andy Farrell’s side face their first test Down Under after Argentina defeat

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12 h. ago Lions v Western Force referee Ben O'Keeffe faced scary toilet incident after game

Ben O'Keeffe will be the man in the middle as the British Lions get their tour under way Down Under

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13 h. ago Sir David Beckham joins Mail Sport in calling for England's greatest World Cup captain Bobby Moore to be given honour he richly deserves

MIKE KEEGAN AND RYAN HOOPER: Sir David Beckham today leads the star names calling for 1966 World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore to be given a posthumous knighthood.

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14 h. ago Nigel Owens: My true feelings on the bunker system and why rugby needs to get serious

Former international referee Nigel Owens gives his views on the upcoming Lions tour and the recent officiating controversies

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29 h. ago Gareth Thomas backs Blair Kinghorn to shine on late link up with British and Irish Lions Tour

Scotland full-back Blair Kinghorn, who will run out at the Stade de France on Saturday night for the Top 14 final for club side Toulouse against European champions Bordeaux.

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31 h. ago Mack Hansen draws on personal experience to warn Lions of Western Force upset

Hansen starts on the wing for the Lions in their first tour game Down Under and has harked back to a game from 2013 when discussing the banana skin

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35 h. ago British and Irish Lions urged to ‘create moments’ ahead of Australia tour opener

Western Force await in Perth on Saturday.

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48 h. ago Grantchester star set for lead role in crime drama dubbed new 'Peaky Blinders'

Tom Brittney, who has played Rev Will Davenport in ITV's Grantchester since 2019, will lead the cast in a major new crime drama

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50 h. ago Farrell backs Pollock to prove ‘point of difference’ for Lions in striking selection

Squad’s youngest member starts against Western ForceDan Sheehan to captain Lions on SaturdayThere is a distinctly emerald tinge to the British & Irish Lions teamsheet for this weekend’s opening tour fixture in Australia. More than half the starting XV, three of the bench reserves, the newly minted captain, Dan Sheehan, and the head coach, Andy Farrell, reside in Ireland but perhaps the latter’s most striking selection is the squad’s uncut English diamond at No 8.Henry Pollock is only 20 but the young back-rower has been handed the glittering prize of a lifetime against Western Force on Saturday. Go well and Farrell may well include him in his Test match plans next month. Should the Northampton forward endure a problematic night, conversely, it may precipitate an abrupt managerial U-turn. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Daddy’s home! White House takes NATO chief’s description of Trump to a new level

Trump administration posts cringeworthy video set to 2010 song by Usher and viral mockery ensues

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60 h. ago Debutant Dan Sheehan will lead Lions in first tour fixture against Western Force

Irish hooker joins eight other first-timers in matchday 23Jamison Gibson-Park and James Ryan left out with injuriesEight Ireland players have been selected in the British & Irish Lions starting XV to face Western Force in the first fixture of the squad’s Australia tour on Saturday. The Leinster hooker Dan Sheehan will lead out the team on his Lions debut with eight more first-time Lions featuring in the matchday 23 and 20-year-old Henry Pollock handed a start at number eight.Sheehan will be among those making his Lions debut alongside his club-mates Garry Ringrose, James Lowe, Joe McCarthy and Josh van der Flier. The bench contains another four newcomers in the shape of England’s Ollie Chessum and Will Stuart, Scotland’s Huw Jones and Ireland’s Andrew Porter. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Sheehan will lead Lions with Pollock handed start at No8 against Western Force

Irish hooker joins eight other debutants in matchday 23Northampton’s Pollock to add back-row dynamismEight Ireland players have been selected in the British & Irish Lions starting XV to face Western Force in the first fixture of the squad’s Australia tour on Saturday. The Leinster hooker Dan Sheehan will lead out the team on his Lions debut with eight more first-time Lions featuring in the matchday 23 and 20-year-old Henry Pollock handed a start at number eight.Sheehan will be among those making his Lions debut alongside his club-mates Garry Ringrose, James Lowe, Joe McCarthy and Josh van der Flier. The bench contains another four newcomers in the shape of England’s Ollie Chessum and Will Stuart, Scotland’s Huw Jones and Ireland’s Andrew Porter. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Australia's moustachioed maverick NIC WHITE takes Mail Sport to the barbers and talks Peaky Blinders, the Lions tour and his love of Exeter

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY NIK SIMON IN PERTH, AUSTRALIA: White visits the Guru barber in the suburbs before every big game. This weekend's will be one of the biggest of the lot.

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3 d. ago Rugby star George North says 'Australia's epic' as he returns Down Under

George North has returned to Australia just in time for the 2025 British & Irish Lions Tour which starts this Friday.

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