Mane event: Lions’ road to Australia begins with get-to-know-you coffees

Task of bringing together 38 disparate players begins at Richmond hotel, with kit to be collected and friends to be madeWhen the definitive history of the British & Irish Lions tour this summer is written, there may be a special place reserved for Ted’s coffee van. Taking up position in the car park of the Richmond Hill hotel, here was a focal point, a leafy suburban equivalent of a water cooler around which Andy Farrell’s men could break the ice.Up on the hill, overlooking the T