Behind the Thistle by Barnes David;Burns Peter;Griffiths John;

Author:Barnes, David;Burns, Peter;Griffiths, John;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited

Assisted by Gavin Hastings, Craig Chalmers lines up a kick for goal.

Bill McLaren (in commentary): Teague holding it in [at the back of the scrum] for England on halfway. Teague picks and goes. Tackled by Calder. Hill . . . lovely break, Carling is away, there’s a marvellous overlap here . . . out to Guscott . . . Guscott has dummied and is going . . . and Guscott has scored! That is a magnificent English try. Jeremy Guscott’s seventh try for England in just six internationals – and it was a beauty.

Scott Hastings: I’ve often said that enthusiasm can win matches but it can also lose you games, and I was completely sucked in for that try. I was completely pumped up with adrenalin and looking for a big hit, but in doing so I got pulled out of position that allowed Will Carling to slide off Richard Hill’s pass and step around me and into space. Sean Lineen screamed at me; he couldn’t believe I’d made such a basic error. And it was Jeremy Guscott who took the ball in and scored – it was a superbly worked try, but it was my mistake and I knew it was. But nobody pointed the finger at me because they didn’t need to; I knew I’d done wrong. All we talked about under the posts was what we had to do next to get ourselves back into position in their half. But soon enough we were under pressure on our own line again.

Bill McLaren (in commentary): It’s a penalty for offside. And England have opted for a scrummage. Now there’s an interesting development. They could have taken the penalty, but they’ve gone for the scrummage.

But Scotland have got a bit of a shove on there! And Craig Chalmers has hoofed it clear.

Tony Stanger: People made the connection afterwards between them not kicking penalties and that being a sign of over-confidence, but I don’t buy that. They made the call on the pitch and there is nothing wrong with being confident in your own ability.

Kenny Milne: The English forwards were massive; I mean real man-mountains. And they loved to scrummage. The pressure and weight that came on in every scrum was just phenomenal, it felt as if your eyes were going to burst from the sockets, that you were going to rupture every vein in your body. Every time we went in Jeff Probyn would be boring in on me so that I couldn’t hook, or piling so much pressure down on Soley that I couldn’t see the ball coming in. Every scrum was a fight for survival and Soley was really struggling. I was quite big for a hooker in those days, so Paul Burnell and I worked to take as much pressure as we could off Soley. I would focus on scrummaging against Probyn with Soley, leaving Paul to take on the Judge and Mooro. But for all our efforts we were starting to give away one free

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