Lions Aim To Fulfil Sweeping Promise

Coach Farrell says his side have 'massive responsibility' to meet target they had set

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The British & Irish Lions have history on their minds, as they head into the third and final clash with the Wallabies on Aug 2 determined to sweep a Test series for the first time in living memory.

No Lions team have gone unbeaten in a Test series since Willie John McBride's "Invincibles" in South Africa in 1974, when a controversial draw in the fourth match denied them the sweep.

The Lions did sweep Argentina 4-0 in 1927 and also beat the Wallabies 2-0 three times in the 1950s and 1960s as part of losing tours of New Zealand, but you would need to go back to 1904 for the last 3-0 triumph over Australia.

For coach Andy Farrell, however, the importance of the sweep is simply that it was something the Lions had committed to achieving as a squad before heading to Australia.

"Hopefully (the tour) will be remembered for the type of rugby that we played and the way that we went about it together. That's it," he said, after naming his team on July 31.