The iconic third Test! Lions v Australia 1989! Watch the highlights 🎥

In 1989 The British & Irish Lions side became the first in history to come from behind to win a Series, beating Australia 2-1. For the first time you can re-live the extended highlights!

[@ajhollingworth1]

Teague tackling the ball boy at the end was the best bit! 😂

[@mauricegarvey4631]

I had to rewind that on first watch - that ball was coming home with Mike. Liked how there was different rugby balls native to the respective countries back then in the UK, Ire, France, Australia etc

[@marcdaniels9079]

Wanted it for his pub I guess 😅

[@staceyleeellis9160]

Now I know where boris got it from 😂😂😂

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@mauricegarvey4631 Yes, Australia continued to use a leather ball at this time. I played in a game in Canberra where one was used when on tour in 1987 with Bay Area Touring Side of San Francisco. We were there for the first RWC, and played six games in three weeks time, one in Auckland, and the rest in Australia. 0-6 record too.

[@derrickyeo4451]

I remember getting up early ,5am if my memory recalls, watching these games and then straight to work . The good old days when you watch any sport without having to pay for a channel

[@martingonzalez2850]

Licence fee.

[@derrickyeo4451]

@@martingonzalez2850 yawn 🥱

[@markwebbdoesms2271]

And now we see Lynagh in the Italian stands watching his son. He hasn’t aged a bit!

[@thoughtfulprofessor4198]

This was one of the hardest Lions sides of all time

[@joebaci1214]

Thuggiest.. nothing hard about toe rags taking cheap shots

[@johncourtneidge]

Superb! Thank-you!

[@simonfinch3344]

Was this series that made me take up rugby, loved the biff.

[@TAG1801]

Just realised Guscott played alongside Gavin Hastings in this series and then his brother Scott in South Africa in 97.. and produced another match winner

[@iainpaton5548]

Both Scott and Gavin Hastings played in this match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 whilst Guscott played in 97 but no Hastings brothers 😢

[@sirgoodge]

Both Hastings played in '93 in New Zealand as well, Gavin was captain, Scott sustained a very nasty broken cheek

[@2038FreeStyle]

Rugby was very different in those times, pause the video at minute 0:12 and play it at 0.25 speed. Follow Australia's number 9 carefully, in the next 10 seconds you can see how he gets involved in the maul and receives a blow to the face and neck, then a punch to the head and then when leaving the maul another punch in the face.

[@mauricegarvey4631]

The Oz captain Nick Farr Jones, looks like the Lions wanted to get at them early doors.

[@panzer1066]

Watched that on an old B&W telly during my early turn shift at Tonbridge Station ticket office back in my British Rail days. Hid the telly round the back out of sight and kept diving round between those pesky passengers wanting to buy tickets.......🤭🤭🤭 To come back and win that series after the drubbing in the first test was pretty special eh!

[@kenspedding4594]

Mike Teague made such a huge difference, excellent series.

[@alyndavies]

The third test was incredible. Though the funniest part was the best part was the Welsh behaving like thugs and the Australians blaming the English.

[@GuineasFog]

It would be lovely to see a few full classic matches put up. It's nigh-on impossible to find them. Even DVDs aren't the full tests - just extended highlights from tours. I'd pay a subscription if you had them all on the site. Please.

[@charliecroker6445]

They might not be as powerful and as fast as today's professionals but bloody hell alot tougher as was the game thankfully ,

[@itistrue101]

About the only place the Lions win regularly... this tour will be crushing 3-0

[@Battismore-Blue]

The Daily Express did a piece comparing The Lions to Wigan RL team , man to man position to position , they concluded that Ellery Hanley was as good as the three loose forward put together

[@HKFunster]

I'm mostly a Union man but I wouldn't disagree with you. Ellery Hanley was one of the finest players in any code, a proper legend.

[@thomasharrison72]

Back when rugby was more open, less predictable and much more entertaining

[@charlespirate1]

Did you watch the video? Chaotic, error strewn penalty fest.

[@ronhall9039]

@@charlespirate1 Yeah, I thought that - chaotic. Don't get me wrong, I started playing in the early 70's, tries were three points, lineouts all over the shop (and wingers chucking them in) scrums were rhinos headbutting and all that. As a player I loved it, but it must have been tedium to watch. With professionalism - in other words people (other than rugby nerds) should feel the need to (pay to) watch it, totally different product. I know that the rules that have been imposed due to professionalism have adversely impacted the grass roots - the front row thing and the need for replacements - we used to borrow their players and vice versa - and my first game for my first (and only club) was as a substitute and I was put in as a prop - I was 6'3" and skinny as a rake. I folded quicker than a shit poker hand. I'm not sure what my point is but rugby is a bit like history - what was ok in the 70's wouldn't was in the 90's etc etc. Love it for what it was/is.

[@danocinneide1885]

It's the Irish Wolfhounds playing with the British lions

[@cityzens634]

Probably one of the toughest British Lions sides ever

[@clydebear6914]

British AND Irish Lions please.

[@cityzens634]

@@clydebear6914 Wrong! in 1989 they were known as the British Lions, it wasn’t until 2001 that Irish was added.

[@clydebear6914]

@@cityzens634 So presumably you'd be okay then with using the N word to describe African-Americans back in the 60's would you? Grow up.

[@Kevin-lf4xx]

Some hard men in that Lions pack.

[@paulshawley6490]

A young Jim Maxwell on comms!

[@felixcornelius2577]

No Bill Lauri? What a horrible cantankerous negative POM hater Maxwell was always switching the volume off when I hear dour dull wingeing tones

[@simonmount9929]

my god those pile-ups were a mess. ref spotted a hand in the ruck under a dozen bodies 😂

[@clydebear6914]

Speaking as someone who played during that era, they may have looked like a mess but trust us, we knew what we were doing. 😉

[@jonesyjones7626]

Yes, I am of that vintage and I still believe the game was better then. Now we just have two lines smashing into each other. Bring back rucking!

[@paulbenford354]

Don't forget how much a Lions series means to Australia. Andy Farrell be warned.

[@stephenreeds3632]

1st Test loads of Scots players in the pack and Lions beaten up. Next Test, in comes a few English forwards and the reverse. The Lions were then split Eng v Scotland.

[@daveyjuice7710]

Evans scoring all the tries and Jones supplying and Brian at hooker . Thorburn selected for full back had other things to do

[@adrianperry8352]

Laws have sure changed. Almost all the penalties here would, these days, be pumped into the corner for an attacking throw and drive.

[@rodneylowe9526]

A prime example of why tries were upgraded to 5 points.

[@krisrichardson6690]

5:54 🤣🤣

[@TAG1801]

Poor Campase 😅

[@marcdaniels9079]

Sand for the tee!!!!! 😮

[@Valhalla88888]

How many Scots in this test match counted 5?

[@TheMisanthropyOne]

I think None .

[@davidhorton1064]

I counted 3,Sole, Hastings and Calder

[@davidpearn2484]

Probably the worse commentary ive ever heard

[@baynesstreetblues]

Good to rewatch for nostalgic reasons, but one try in the whole match from a non-pressurised, self-inflicted error hardly makes an iconic match.

[@driffter1976]

Iconic is definitely an overused adjective, but this was a memorable match regardless of Campese’s error.

[@kevinkeane446]

Iconic? Well I guess everything is these days, iconic or historic

[@johndykes3185]

1989 hell jonah is still 6 years away

[@johnbobby1092]

Rugby was enjoyable back then but it was bloody rubbish 😂

[@davidhaspell6417]

Campese, what a plonker😂

[@thischannelhasnoname5780]

Campese...hahahaha

[@lloydrobson]

Biased commentary from the Aussies 🥴🤔

[@jeremymerrifield7244]

Campese showing why he was never good enough

[@mtnstrand2819]

Gee, but the goalkicking were poor back then!

[@johngamba4823]

You could even say it was amateurish 😂

[@seanbradley3755]

Always thought Hastings and lynagh were different gravy till I watched this

[@allendixon3225]

I don’t think you were allowed kicking tee’s in those days. You can see Michael Lynagh using sand to raise the height of the ball. Most kickers back then just made a small indent in the pitch using their heel. I also seem to remember the balls being heavier and less aerodynamic but I may be wrong.

[@garethleeming539]

Campers...What a mug!

[@WayneGordon-ir7zs]

When rugby was played by proper men not like today's protected pretty boys. They we're called the British Lions then and still are fuck the having too put Irish into it.

[@sureseam]

Britain as a geographical term includes all of Ireland. Honestly the rest of us have good reasons to appreciate the Irish - not least the number of volunteers who fought in WW2.

[@Triple5live]

Irish always got something up their arse about something. Always have had, always will

[@thomaslockhart1138]

W and anchor comes to mind

[@martingonzalez2850]

​@thomaslockhart1138 That's not a nice thing to say about the Irish.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Things change, get used to it.