Willie John McBride Willie John McBride William James McBride, MBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times — a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps. He also captained the most successful ever Lions side, which toured South Africa in 1974. McBride was born at Toomebridge, County Antrim. Owing to his father's death when he was five years old, he spent most of
A Question of Sport former captains. Tufnell was joined by Bill Beaumont and Ally McCoist, while Dawson was joined by Willie Carson and John Parrott—with Tufnell’s side winning. With more than 45 series broadcast since its launch, "A Question of Sport" is one of the BBC’s longest-running shows. In a Christmas special broadcast in 2014, the show was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest-running sports quiz show. The rounds played include: The show was hosted regionally in the North of England by Stuart Hall from 1968, then nationally by David Vine from 1970 to 1977, and then from 1979 until 1997