New Zealand in 1983 turned out to be a Tour to forget for The Lions.
The squad was managed by Willie John McBride, coached by Jim Telfer and captained by Ciaran Fitzgerald.
However, the entire Tour was blighted by controversy over team selections, and the squad was decimated by a succession of injuries to key personnel - hardly surprising when you consider that they had to play a whopping 18 games over a 2-month period.
With this in mind, it was perhaps inevitable that The Lions would struggle against an All Black side that was as powerful up front as it was gifted in the back-line.
Although, to be fair to Fitzgerald's team, they only really took a hiding in their fourth and final Test.
They pushed their Kiwi rivals all the way in the opener, before going down 16-12 in Christchurch. They fought gamely a week later in difficult conditions in Wellington, but failed to score a single point and slumped to a desperately disappointing 9-0 defeat.
The Lions pulled their best performance of the series out of the bag in the Third Test - outscoring the Kiwis two tries to one - but still managed to lose the game, 15-8.
Unsurprisingly, that defeat knocked the stuffing out of the Tourists, and their 38-6 capitulation in the final Test was not a huge shock.
It was somewhat fitting, too: a terrible end to a terrible Tour.