7 That is in spite of the fact that the All Blacks haven't won the World Cup from the post-1995 professional age. 45 From the words of former Lions' participant, Clem Thomas: 'The announcement of 21 Englishmen, 11 Irish, 10 Welsh along with three Scots had been startling given that England and Ireland had played miserably in the Seven Nations, while Wales had won the Grand Slam with some inspirational and sarcastic rugby. Voices of a Small Country, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Sport, Culture and the Media, England: Open University Press. Open to three-year-olds, you will find 3 races, or legs, into the sweep. However there will forever stay blank spaces on the walls of this All-England Club where the winners of the 2020 Wimbledon tennis hoop could have been honoured and no title engraved on the Claret Jug which belongs to the British Open golf winner.