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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Duncan Bech

Pierre Schoeman hits back at critics of foreign-born British and Irish Lions

Pierre Schoeman is fully embedded within the Scottish culture - (Getty Images)

Pierre Schoeman insists the British and Irish Lions’ overseas-born contingent have earned the right to be in Australia and have fully immersed themselves in the tourists’ culture.

The Scotland prop is one of eight Lions players who were born, raised and educated in South Africa, New Zealand or Australia but qualify for their home unions through residency or family lineage.

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