England dare not lose against Scotland with World Cup dream at stake
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England dare not lose against Scotland with World Cup dream at stake
This will not be a routine assignment for England.
There are fissures to be healed, confidence levels to be replenished, hearts and minds to be seduced.
And all that at a stadium where Scotland have suffered as few others have, the sweet uplift of victory being experienced only four times in just over a century, and not once since 1983.
All the more reason for England to be wary.
Defeat would be a sporting calamity.
World Cup contenders do not lose at home.
And Scotland intend to prey on that.
“It is a massive opportunity for us to make history,” Matt Scott, the Scotland centre…
There are fissures to be healed, confidence levels to be replenished, hearts and minds to be seduced.
And all that at a stadium where Scotland have suffered as few others have, the sweet uplift of victory being experienced only four times in just over a century, and not once since 1983.
All the more reason for England to be wary.
Defeat would be a sporting calamity.
World Cup contenders do not lose at home.
And Scotland intend to prey on that.
“It is a massive opportunity for us to make history,” Matt Scott, the Scotland centre…
