CLASH OF THE TITANS Lions Tour 1974

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The BBC programme chronicling the British Lions rugby tour of South Africa in 1974 when apartheid was in place in that country and the effects that had on the country at that time. The video deals with the bonding of the Lions players on that tour and the colourful stories told about the tour in which the purpose was beat the South Africans in their own country... something that had never been done before. The programme shows how the townships came out in great numbers to support the British Lions. The star of the video is "The Broon frae Troon", the late lamented Scotland lock Gordon Brown who died at the absurdly young age of 53 in March 2001. His descriptions of occurrences within the tour are beautiful pen pictures and his dry, laconic delivery is a joy to watch.
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@davidpollard4051 5 ай бұрын

JJ was deadly on that tour. Never gets the praise of some of the others but surely the Lions player of the tour.

@kjcunningham297 9 ай бұрын

Willie John oh Willie John ..what a captain what a leader...now THAT'S a man who is truly officer class, and I'm a bloody Scot.

@questionitall3053 2 жыл бұрын

To me JPR Williams was THE best no15 to ever play rugby union.

@homolgus1 Жыл бұрын

your not wrong

@dnorfed Жыл бұрын

Bang on with the comment

@kjcunningham297 9 ай бұрын

Bloody hell, every too the commentator mentions any Lion name it is a legend from my childhood. Of course my heart especially conflates when I hear Andy Irvine, Billy steel and Gordon Brown but in the words of W B Yeats.: - Yet they were of a different kind. The names who stilled your childish play "

@user-xq1oq9bf6c 4 ай бұрын

Jpr was as tough as anyone in that position, but deffinatly not the best ever

@ianhaynes3127 4 ай бұрын

Definitely

@chrismorris4392 4 ай бұрын

RIP JPR

@davidroby8493 4 жыл бұрын

As a young Englishman working in South Africa at the time, I was fortunate to see 3 matches - the Eastern Province '99' match, Border and the 3rd test in Port Elizabeth. I was a very smug Brit!

@michaeldavis1609 4 жыл бұрын

For me the greatest rugby 15 of all time✌️

@craighjonas8833 3 жыл бұрын

Willie John McBride & the Lion King himself Sir Ian McGeechan... Absolute legends of the game!

@nathanwilliams2152 Жыл бұрын

I'd put WJM and Colin Meads as my 2nd row in a World XV 🙂

@thadtuiol1717 4 жыл бұрын

The '71 and '74 Lions were awesome.

@mjpqu 3 жыл бұрын

The great part of it was we had the awesome Wales backline as the back bone to OUR team all together . You add all the other players and boy what a team !!

@pageant1fd Жыл бұрын

Probably the greatest rugby team ever to take to the pitch !

@nathanwilliams2152 Жыл бұрын

Either them, or the '71 Lions, who won the test series against the All Blacks and went round NZ's provinces unbeaten...the '74 Lions played a tougher, more physical brand of rugby, the '71 Lions played a more technical, free-flowing, tactical game.

@mikewilliams4499 4 жыл бұрын

What a collection of players. What a captain. What a tour. Thanks for posting this

@questionitall3053 2 жыл бұрын

To me JPR Williams was THE best no15 to ever play rugby union. What a team that was.

@kjcunningham297 9 ай бұрын

Nothing to say bar superlatives....

@countycricklewood 4 ай бұрын

Best Lions skipper ever!!! 🇮🇪👊☘️

@johncourtneidge 3 ай бұрын

Yes x3 !

@gordonroy7860 4 жыл бұрын

Great documentary. What a team!! Legends

@stephenreeds3672 3 жыл бұрын

For me the most depressing fact was that when they came back the Gov, who had condemned them, couldn't wait to feed off the success. And politicians talk about morals and principles.

@callumsmaile8815 3 жыл бұрын

JPR Williams missed his vocation as a boxer 😂

@robinstevenson1098 8 ай бұрын

The All blacks put a stud all the way through his cheek. He stated he didn’t want to play the All Bllacks again! Though he might have done to get them back. Springbok violence was up front, All Black violence was behind the ref and vicious. JPR got stamped on the face! Who does that?

@dnorfed Жыл бұрын

I do believe that the lions side of 74 would beat any of the 6 nations teams of today, there was surely more passion and energy, plus “ FLAIR” that the modern game is short of

@saturdayplayer2492 Жыл бұрын

They formed a truly great team. But to compare teams from different eras is impossible. Bennett would be thought of as too small today. Brute force has overtaken flair these days.

@Glider34 2 ай бұрын

They would any team worldwide, the best team the world has ever seen.

@robcousins231 Жыл бұрын

JJ Williams was lethal. Gerald Davies was rightly celebrated as one of the all time greats, but JJ was brilliant as well.

@suffern63 3 жыл бұрын

I still come out in goose pimples when I watch some of this

@skinnersbollox 2 жыл бұрын

What a team. What try at 33:33. Those Welsh backs were amazing.

@thadtuiol1717 3 жыл бұрын

JPR going Karate Kid on their Bok arses in that 3rd test, bloody legend!

@lawrieflowers8314 4 жыл бұрын

Our boys did us proud!

@britbox4517 4 жыл бұрын

Great watch. Thanks for posting.

@mackindle12345 3 жыл бұрын

26:38 - given the lack of time left in the game, being down by 2 points, and with the threat of the unbeaten tour run on the line, that has to be one of the greatest bits of rugby I've ever seen... WHAT A PASS by Edwards 😱

@zed1207 Жыл бұрын

And they were amateurs! Jesus!

@kevclaremcd 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff as always Kev, it's some commitment to care for such an important dog adequately.

@trevorcook9680 4 ай бұрын

Difficult to decide between 2 great fly halfs Bennett and John, but the greatest greatest half back combination of my time playing & watching rugby up to the present day was Gareeth Edwards & Barry John

@iangregory54 3 жыл бұрын

Great documentary. Definitely a try by Slattery at the end but that's life

@rampageclover9788 4 ай бұрын

Gordon Brown, what a warrior….taken from us way too soon

@brownstephen8947 4 жыл бұрын

Boss game thanks for the memories

@andyforshortbutnotforlong5351 4 жыл бұрын

UK Horizons, that’s a blast from the past, very interesting documentary though. An incredible story of an indomitable lions team.

@evanderer 4 жыл бұрын

i was 18 at the time never knew a bok defeat since then.. brilliant Lions and well deserved win made us more humble than we were !

@celtic333ful 3 жыл бұрын

I have never met a humble South African (at least a white one)

@evanderer 3 жыл бұрын

@@celtic333ful are the Britih humble?, the French, German?

@amarofpatel 4 жыл бұрын

Bennett - what a step.

@rampageclover9788 4 ай бұрын

What a bloodbath this tour was….

@pipellis6672 3 жыл бұрын

JPR ran 20 yards for the 99 call...😁😅 and didn’t back down against anyone. And a good fullback, too.....

@crispinswainstonharrison9042 3 жыл бұрын

Those Lions players to this day are all heroes !

@davidpollard4051 5 ай бұрын

Was this team better than the '71 Lions ? Two great teams both with historic achievements.

@Rotowhaka 4 ай бұрын

One minor correction, the French in fact had a series win in South Africa back in the 1950’s 2 test series. 1-0 with a draw

@GC-jt7ey 9 ай бұрын

Jpr boxeur of the year!

@mwain66 4 жыл бұрын

What a team !

@admiralbenbow5083 2 жыл бұрын

29.35 Its no good Du Plessis moaning about the lack of sociability of the Lions. This was the land of the Dutchman. You would have to go a very long way indeed to find a more insular, cliquey and arrogant culture. They were, and still are exceptional in that regard.

@robinstevenson1098 8 ай бұрын

The Amsterdammers are tolerant, if not very friendly to the “ tourists’. And a Dutch oceanogrepher told my about global warming in about 1998. If you go travelling in out there places and you have kids! You are always glad to see the Dutch :) Shit colonialists, but who was a good colonialist?

@admiralbenbow5083 8 ай бұрын

@@robinstevenson1098 I sincerely hope you are joking ?? For your sake.

@shintenkai1648 7 ай бұрын

@@admiralbenbow5083bro you need to shut up and think before you talk, hlalaphansi umlungu humba isula wena. You insult an entire culture of your own relatives dimwit.

@stephenreeds3672 3 жыл бұрын

Such elastic principles.

@thadtuiol1717 3 жыл бұрын

That's the whole point of principles

@celtic333ful 3 жыл бұрын

As an Irishman it pains me to say Edwards/Bennett had to be the most talented 9/10 in rugby history. And to have them on the same team as the Williams brothers was insane.

@jonathandavies7462 3 жыл бұрын

Have to agree on Benny and Gar..... just a small point JPR and JJ aren’t brothers 😂

@celtic333ful 3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathandavies7462 I always thought they were brothers. They look very alike. I guess we learn something new every day

@jonathandavies7462 3 жыл бұрын

Easy mistake to make mate....in Wales everybody is either a Williams, Evans, Davies or Jones 😉

@celtic333ful 3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathandavies7462 :)

@michaelkeegan3670 Жыл бұрын

As another Irishman, it pains me to find out only now that JJ and JPR were brothers. Edwards/ John were decent too!

@johnturner1073 3 ай бұрын

OK, it wan't all hand to hand, but that long-range try in the second Test was as good as the legendary Baa Baas one against the All Blacks. Willie John had a superb singing voice, would have loved to have heard all of Will Ye Go Lassie Go...that tour was so special in every way, and when you look back now, 50 years on, you realise it was the peak of the British Lions and can never be repeated.

@carmenlottner297 3 жыл бұрын

Having to dig the tee with your boot,no plastic nonsense.Hah,those were the days...

@paulcrowley 7 ай бұрын

We should be so proud of every lion that goes and represents us truly great men each and everyone of them

@Poepwoes 3 жыл бұрын

Biggest surprises for we South Africans - first, the '74 Lions. Then, Sylvester Clark many years later. Back to the '74 Lions. Without financial backing, the best amateur international rugby team ever (got cheated out of a series win against the AB's by NZ refs)

@dashingeduardosuarez Жыл бұрын

Yeah, maybe everyone should have gotten off their high horse when it came to South Africa. Look at the absolute state of the country nowadays.

@kelvinbrunton4780 Жыл бұрын

Waa awesome

@Theelby33 4 жыл бұрын

my 4th lions doc watched during covid19 thank who ever for you tube

@25pappy 4 жыл бұрын

Well you can start by thanking the person who uploaded it, Mike May.

@cushyglen4264 2 жыл бұрын

When you set Willie John McBride along side modern Irish politicians - north & south - you see the woeful deficit in leadership skills & integrity in politics.

@robertboyle2573 4 жыл бұрын

Real sport.

@edjones521 4 ай бұрын

John Taylor talked a lot of sense at the start

@andrewgirdlestone7607 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone get the ironic comment from the narrator (phew avoided that bad sentence) when it’s called blacklisting? Or using a lot of Queen tracks given the sun city tour? The greatest side ever to have left these shores, the talent, leadership and good humour, not forgetting the songs. Everyone who played in the tests deserve a knighthood

@russoswerve3974 3 жыл бұрын

You’re incorrect in the description; Gordon Brown died in 2001 aged 53 not 43

@mikemay5096 3 жыл бұрын

Apologies. Still too young.

@jacquelinefox4492 3 жыл бұрын

Has anything changed?; X

@butzee 3 жыл бұрын

14.31 proteas player absolutely smashed!

@cliveclerkenville2637 Жыл бұрын

It’s heartening to see how well black run South Africa is doing these days. If the lights happen to be on, of course.

@Rotowhaka 4 ай бұрын

Why is it called load sharing as opposed to black outs?

@scott74lamb Жыл бұрын

Bad times, the lions went there to play rugby. Brutal, but beautiful

@Hddftkkk Жыл бұрын

Yea I struggle with this decision and I’m not sure what I would have done at the time. I see the argument that playing SA in in some way condoning the a racist government yet as a competitor you want to play (and beat) the best.

@contrarian717 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Yes the Lions were great. Management. Captain. Family feel. But it was not the best Bok team, dis organised, panick selections, and too few test in years before. Free State proofed that the series should've been closer. Our Gvt at the time was quite simply schocking. I can only hide in shame.

@brettwilkinson9529 4 жыл бұрын

I condemn politicians sticking their noses in sports. Should always be kept separate.

@brettwilkinson9529 4 жыл бұрын

@mindfield Mog81 No. Played in New Zealand

@snowyrichmond5445 4 жыл бұрын

stuck their noses in, then sycophantic book living on their return. Typical politicians, as soon as it's popular then OK, we suddenly agree.

@snowyrichmond5445 4 жыл бұрын

boot licking

@MrAhuapai 4 жыл бұрын

Who do you think runs the IOC ,FIFA ,World Rugby and all the world bodies of major sports if not the Politicians .Don't be so naive.

@brettwilkinson9529 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrAhuapai players decision.No one else's .We didn't need them to tour South Africa during the 1970's and 80's.

@MrAhuapai 4 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable that over seven years later the Springboks would be allowed to tour NZ and subsequently rip the country part in riots and protests.

@barcafan18 4 жыл бұрын

The British & IRISH Lions please.

@grahamturner97 3 жыл бұрын

It was the British Lions then. Like it or lump it.

@KernowekTim 4 жыл бұрын

Lekker broers. Men of Men.

@gideonsmit4344 8 ай бұрын

Why didn't England and Australia and New Zealand have Blacks and other races in their teams??

@Rotowhaka 2 ай бұрын

NZ had Maori Players such as George Nepia going way back With Australia it was not untill the 1980's they regularly selected Aborignal players, such as the Ella brothers, i believe Australia did have the odd player of a coloured race before the Ella Brothers But NZ would send whites only teams to SA, up till 1970, The All Blacks tour to SA in 1976 had a few players of mixed blood, but it ruined the 1976 olympic games in Montreal, as a number of African countries pulled out because NZ was there and were still having sporting contacts with SA I have heard from a reliable source, Canada and in particular Quebec and Montreal, were filthy with NZ over this. And rightly so.

@markquickfall8098 4 ай бұрын

Jpr williams Pound for pound probably the best there was around

@maureenjackson2041 2 жыл бұрын

To all those who say politics and sport shouldn't mix, I agree there is no.place for RACISM in sport, the tour should never have taken place, it gave credence to the apartheid regime which was brutal.

@roystonwilliams3374 4 ай бұрын

It gave the coloured people someone to support and we beat the springboks

@wobblertv8083 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing that south Africa beat new Zealand in 70 four nil I think at home .Then were completely dismantled by the lions .

@matthewashman1406 Жыл бұрын

3 -1.

@MrDavidht 3 ай бұрын

Some of the players start a fire in a hotel and well... it's just the chaps having a bit of fun, 'boys will be boys'. If a soccer team had behaved like that it would be all over the international press with a sense of outrage, no conspiracy of silence, the guilty would have been sent home with international careers ruined as probably would the manager ultimately. They try to tell us rugby is played by gentlemen.

@jamiescott9609 2 жыл бұрын

Would a TMO have awarded Slattery the try in the final Test?

@robinstevenson1098 8 ай бұрын

Yes, no Hige thighs to stop ot

@mbongenixundu8574 3 жыл бұрын

Clearly sports and politics were always intertwined in SA after listening to the then SA PM

@stephenreeds3672 3 жыл бұрын

Best Lions team ever but did nth to end apartheid despite what some may believe. Didn't finish until 50 years later.

@DavidJones-mn7ie 3 жыл бұрын

Twenty years later, we haven't even reached fifty yet.

@roystonwilliams3374 4 ай бұрын

Would it have been longer if we did not go

@stephenevans1441 4 жыл бұрын

who was the commentator

@mikemay5096 4 жыл бұрын

Nigel Starmer-Smith, ex-England scrum half

@lowros7786 Жыл бұрын

Loved this.

@seanmcmanus867 8 ай бұрын

Mcbride is so naive in this

@johncourtneidge 3 ай бұрын

Two points: the White South Africans were, essentially Boers. Yes? So Lions vs Boers, as in about 1900? Secondly, yes, marvellous Lions! But had the SA Team been all races . . .?

@shintenkai1648 7 ай бұрын

The boks still to this day intimidate sides. Anyone who says different is just lying to themselves to feel better in their little heads. No it's not arrogance, your favourite go to insult, it's pure unadulterated FACT.

@davidparish2343 3 ай бұрын

How naive to suggest that politics and sport don't mix. Very proud of the part that New Zealand played in breaking this abhorrent regime.

@jacqloock 4 жыл бұрын

Thugs and proud of it.

@grahamjeffries4566 4 ай бұрын

The police are there many of them

@kelvinbrunton4780 Жыл бұрын

Was Willie John betterl than Colin meads

@thomasbaillie-carrigan3100 4 ай бұрын

Was this really about rugby or BBC politics? Now I know.

@mjpqu 4 жыл бұрын

Typical BBC The winner of Team of the Year is the British Lions (not the real name The British and Irish Lions:: When you think about it after the great Welsh players, the next best was the Irish players............

@RubyMarkLindMilly 3 жыл бұрын

They weren't known as the British and Irish lions back then only the British lions

@mjpqu 3 жыл бұрын

Mark Cannon Will accept that but if that is the case you would wonder why as the Irish were involved in all the lions tours and they are not part the British empire and their captain was also captain of the Irish Team. Was that the official name or the name that was given to it by the British press??.

@mjpqu 3 жыл бұрын

They were known as the British Isles Lions but again the BBC took out the ISLES part ::

@jonathanmcaleece9834 Жыл бұрын

@@mjpqu leave you’re politics at home

@freebeing0858 4 ай бұрын

In those days they were called the British Lions, not the British and Irish Lions.

@wgjansenvanvuren8160 3 жыл бұрын

The weakest Springbok team ever-Apartheid has caught up with the Springbok isolation.

@thomaspollock5709 2 жыл бұрын

No credit to irish players all British wrong

@thomaspollock5709 4 ай бұрын

He was great but not the best

@robertroberts2666 4 жыл бұрын

I am a Taff listening to the comments of Broon of Troon and cannot help but think that AW Jones is an overpaid ponce of a modern day player who will cite a fellow player for the minor of offences. Love of money eh Al?

@philipmarsden7104 4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Roberts: Are you really so disappointed that Alun-Wyn didn't retaliate and get sent off? Marler besmirched rugby with his provocation,which wasn't a 'minor offence',rather it was extremely unsportsmanlike.In this day and age, Broon wouldn't have fallen for Marler's trick either,so don't bring him into this and demean his memory.

@richardlloyd166 3 жыл бұрын

Would you call Alun Wyn Jones a ponce to his face? Of course you wouldn't, you're a sad keyboard warrior. He's achieved more in 10 seconds on a rugby pitch than you ever have. As far the Marler incident you are referring to, Marler was lucky not be reported for sexual assault.

@John-pl8fe 3 жыл бұрын

A documentary more about old men talking rather than showing proper rugby action!!

@markdixon2825 4 жыл бұрын

Chastising the team for going to South Africa and playing against probably the worst, most disorganized Springbok team in living memory (before so called democracy) is one thing. Celebrating the exact same Lions team because of their well earned, hard fought (in literal terms) victory is another. It smacks of complete hypocrisy and tarnishes the moral standing behind their ideals. A smack in the face of all who where against the tour surely? Yet we have Apartheid in reverse now that is alive and well in the form of AA, BEE, etc. etc. and where is this “moral outcry” now? IMHO.

@contrarian717 4 жыл бұрын

Yes wish the tour never happened, Boks were bad and not ready and panick decisions. Lions were great team, but you got to see it in context

@maureenjackson2041 2 жыл бұрын

Oh please Europeans in South Africa are NOT being oppressed so just because because whites no longer have the best of everything it doesn't mean they're oppressed, whites can vote, live where they want, send their children to schools of their choice, use all public facilities, dont have to carry passes try life as a black South African during apartheid then you would really know oppression.

@stephenreeds3632 Жыл бұрын

They shouldn't have gone. It took 40+ years for apartheid to go. That tour helped to keep it alive as did "rebel" cricket tours. The more aware members realised in hindsight that what they did was wrong.

@thomaspollock5709 2 жыл бұрын

McBride flower of Scotland is ok in Scotland he wàs wrong as he was referring to his descendents of th plantion of Ulster by the english.what about the apartheid in Ulster against native Irish Catholic nationwide.could sang anything else às the Irish players on tour did not like it.well it's all over now would have worked.

@jonathanmcaleece9834 Жыл бұрын

Leave your rotten politics at home idiot

@alexhollins5830 4 жыл бұрын

My response to a Willie pep talk. Get up and walk away. They should not have gone. Those who declined to go are the inspirational from this sorry tale of selfishness and self denial and self delusion. It was all to do with politics. The promotion of the tourists as heroes and victims of intimidation makes my blood boil.

@lowros7786 Жыл бұрын

The antithesis of toxic masculinity