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There can be something almost enjoyable about a cricketing tour that slowly comes off the rails. As the injuries mount, the defeats follow, and off-field allegations begin, you can develop a gallows humour towards your team, as you ponder whether new levels of rock bottom can be reached. England’s tour of Australia in 1994/95 is one of my personal favourites of this genre. But the 1983/84 ‘Sex, drugs and rock n’ roll’ tour to New Zealand takes some beating. Read more »

With the 2017 Rugby League World Cup about to start, this week I am taking a look back at the 1985-88 tournament, as Australia continued their domination of the sport. Although the Rugby League World Cup had been running since 1954, the irregular staging of the tournament had not helped the event establish itself in the sporting calendar. Indeed, after the 1977 tournament, it would be another eight years before the International Board decided to resuscitate the concept. A Paris meeting in May 1985 saw the five member nations of Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, and Papua New Guinea agree to take part in a ninth World Cup, although a change in format meant that it was now a three-year event. Read more »

This piece follows on from my previous blogs on the warm-up matches, first, second, and third Tests of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-first-test.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-second-test.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-third-test.html Read more »

This piece follows on from my previous blogs on the warm-up matches, first Test, and second Test of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-first-test.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-second-test.html   Read more »

This piece follows on from my previous blogs on the warm-up matches and first Test of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-new-zealand-v-lions-first-test.html Read more »

This piece follows on from my previous blog on the warm-up matches of the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in 1983: http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/1983-british-and-irish-lions-warm-up-matches.html Read more »

The first of a series looking back at the 1983 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand. Read more »