Isn't it amazing that Sky can manage to turn a depressing defeat into glorious failure in the blink of an eye and by the end of it all you're left wondering did the Lions really lose to the Springboks?

It was a strange day, Simon Lazenby perched on a mountain with Paul Wallace, Ieuan Evans and Will Greenwood battling manfully to be heard.

It doesn’t help that you’re so high you need oxygen nor is it an easy task to shout above the music as Eighties sensation Billy Ocean belted out Caribbean Queen in the background.

For the first hour in Durban a collection Heinrichs and Bismarcks were given the brave Allies a good lashing but in an effort to foster good relations with the tourists, Peter de Villiers decided to throw on a few subs, Nelson Mandela, Gary Player, Zola Budd and Gary Bailey coming on.

This made something of a difference, suddenly the Lions came to life, mainly because Phil Vickery was taken off and put out of his misery, with commentator Miles Harrison suddenly turning into Brian Moore.

Shouting maniacally ‘get over' as the man with Teflon hands Ugo Monye dropped the ball again, wetting himself as Mike Phillips scored and sobbing ‘we've got five points, we've got less than five minutes.'

And at the end even the Lions fans dressed like Michael Caine in Zulu were chucking their helmets in the air.

But they're taking the pith if they think they're going to win the second Test.