The tale is reminiscent of a scene from the grim black comedy film, Four Lions, and we'll never know what really happened.
But Sale could yet suffer for their win - they have risked the wrath of governing body the RFU by playing four Lions stars for the whole game.
The Blues would have sent four Lions into action, but Leigh Halfpenny, who was due to play full back, withdrew due to what was described as a slight knock, leaving Chris Czekaj to take over while Tom James came on to the wing.
Guarding over the park -- and the memories of Americans memorialized there -- are four bronze lions.
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The wildlife park now has a pride of four white lions but they occur very rarely in the wild.
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The Somerset man has a remarkable average of 93 on this tour of the United Arab Emirates, having scored 31, 77 not out, 40 not out and 50 in the four preceding Lions games.
The Lions have won four NFL titles, the last in 1957, giving the team owned by the Ford family since 1964 the second-longest championship drought in football and making the Lions only one of four teams that have yet to qualify for the Super Bowl.
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Williams, 44, took over at Leinster Lions four seasons ago following a spell with New South Wales Waratahs.
And within four minutes the Lions were 3-1 down on aggregate when a Rosa cross was met by a flying Botis header, which hit the bar and bounced down just over the line.
The South Africans could even afford some uncharacteristic fielding lapses, with four dropped catches in the Lions innings, both openers spilled inside the first four overs.
They include a giraffe, two lions, four zebras, a rhino and a pygmy hippo.
McGeechan has been head coach on four British and Irish Lions tours and was at the helm for Scotland, Northampton and, most recently, Wasps.
The Lions had four games blacked out on local television in 2009 and one last season because the games were not sold out 72 hours before kickoff.
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Uttley, who had only made his England debut the year before in 1973, playing at lock, was used as a back row forward, playing in all four Tests as the Lions finished the tour unbeaten.
At that time, the Nittany Lions had endured four losing seasons in five years, their worst run in Mr. Paterno's tenure.
Plus it has some features no other Four Seasons offers, namely lions, elephants, giraffes and dozens of other stunning examples of African wildlife.
The Lions comes together every four years and are seen as something of a super team featuring the best of Britain and Ireland's rugby talent.
Jerome Taylor is set to join the tour early next week and will be available for the four-day match against England Lions at Derby starting on 30 April.
In the modern professional era, Lions tours take place every four years, visiting the southern-hemisphere Tri-Nations powers of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia in rotation.
The Lions team assembles just once every four years, so a lack of cohesion is likely in the initial stages of a tour.
If you take out the shared national revenues, the Cowboys generated four times as much in stadium revenues as the Lions.
He won 70 games with the Lions, including a school-record 18 four years ago.
The former Leicester, England and Lions number eight has also been implicated in four other similar incidents and the RFU is yet to decide what further action will be taken.
The Royal XV held out until four minutes from the end, when Jones put the Lions ahead with O'Gara again adding the extras before sealing victory with a last-gasp seven-pointer.
Gatland also admits that picking Mike Phillips on the bench - despite the British and Irish Lions star playing just 40 minutes of rugby in four months - is a gamble.
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The Lions are comprised of the best players from the four home unions of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and competition for places in the squad is fierce as club and country loyalties are put aside.
His lack of match fitness saw him overlooked for the recent British and Irish Lions' tour of South Africa, having been selected four years earlier for the series in New Zealand.
The Lions tradition took a beating during the tour of New Zealand four years ago.
Wilkin says Fa'asavalu, who has spent four seasons with Saints, has already had a positive influence on the Lions squad.
Under caretaker Willie Donachie the Lions ended their run of five straight defeats, picking up four points from his two games in charge.
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