Martin Johnson SIGNED British and Irish Lions Rugby 2005 New Zealand Shirt

Martin Johnson SIGNED British and Irish Lions Rugby 2005 New Zealand Shirt
 
Signed Clearly in Black Permanent Marker by Martin Johnson on the Front of the Jersey.
 
Shirt has logos of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
 
British and Irish Lions
Brand: Kooga
Size: XL
 
Martin Johnson is a retired English Rugby Union player who represented and captained England and Leicester in a career spanning 16 seasons. He captained England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup and is regarded as one of the greatest locks ever to have played, and one of England's greatest ever players.
 
Johnson was an ever-present as England won the Grand Slam in the 1995 Five Nations Championship. In 1997 he was named as captain for the victorious British Lions tour to South Africa, in 2001 he became the first man to captain the Lions twice as he led the 2001 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia which was his final Lions Tour.
 
He became England captain in 1999 and led the side in 39 matches, the third most ever. He was captain as England reached the quarter finals of the 1999 Rugby World Cup, won the Grand Slam in the 2003 Six Nations Championship and as England won the 2003 Rugby World Cup. The 2003 Rugby World Cup Final was his 84th and final international match.
 
On 1 July 2008 he became the England team manager. Under his management England won the 2011 Six Nations Championship, their first since 2003.
 
In 2005, the British and Irish Lions rugby union team toured New Zealand for the first time since 1993, playing seven matches against first and second division teams from the National Provincial Championship, one match against the New Zealand Maori team, and three test matches against New Zealand (the All Blacks).