Sir Ian McGeechan leaves Brian O’Driscoll out of his all-time Lions backline

SCRUM-HALF: Matt Dawson (England)

McGeechan said: “I have always thought that he was the reason why Jonny Wilkinson played so well for England, simply because of the ball Daws gave him and when he gave it to him.”

DID YOU KNOW? In September 2006 he appeared in BBC One‘s Celebrity MasterChef programme, beating Roger Black and Hardeep Singh Kohli, to win the final

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