Here is one of my favorite comic postcards, published in New Zealand in 1905 after that historical 9-3 win over British Lions in Wellington...
Caption reads : New Zealand footballers at home kicking the 'Lion' over his own goal !... not to forget an Australian wallaby ready to hit him back...
There's a lot in this cartoon... the distress of British Lions after their last minute defeat yesterday in South Africa, the supremacy of Southern Hemisphere rugby, a Wallaby to recall how disapointing was French squad yesterday in Sydney... and an All Black (sorry, no Springbock available in my library...) to explain the art of kicking to Ronan O'Gara...
This being said, if you really want to laugh about Lion taming, there's nothing better than this 5 minutes Monty Python classic starring John Cleese and Michael Palin... no rugby inside, I'm afraid, just a larch...
