Far less chat and more rugby action please, Sky

The Lions tour of South Africa, despite the empty stadia, the Covid scares, and so on, is still all about the rugby, so why did Sky feel the need to have a two-hour (!) build-up, and a 90-minute post mortem for the First Test? We want to watch the rugby, so does the nonsense that surrounds the game add to the experience, or detract from it?

- COLIN BOAG

We had the obligatory clips of previous Lions tours, the mandatory view of Table Mountain, and then snippets of fans showing how excited they were. The studio pundits were an impressive line-up, with Lions royalty in Sir Ian McGeechan, the ever-impressive Maggie Alphonsi, Sam Warburton, and, via video link, the coaching star of the moment, Ronan O’Gara – so far so good.

However, we then went to Greenwood who was described by front man Alex Payne as having gone ‘full Travis Bickle’ – Robert De Niro’s character in