CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) For the British and Irish Lions, most memories of Christchurch’s Lancaster Park are bitter ones.
From their first appearance there in 1930, when they lost 13-10, to their most-recent in 2005, when they beaten 21-3, the 38,000 stadium in the east of the South Island city was seldom a venue of success.
The Lions have won only one of nine tests against the All Blacks in Christchurch; in 1977 when their 13-9 victory could not prevent a 3-1 series defeat.
Not even the 1971 squad, which remains the only Lions team to have beaten New Zealand in a test series in New Zealand, could not win at Lancaster Park, losing 22-12 before winning the four-test series 2-1.