Scotland's Fraser Brown shown yellow for dangerous tackle on Elliot Daly
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Scotland hooker Fraser Brown was sin-binned in the opening minutes of the England and Scotland match this past weekend. Many felt the hooker was fortunate to come away with only the yellow, after he lifted and dumped Daly in a dangerous tackle.
In his decision for the yellow card, referee Mathieu Raynal explained the reason being that Daly had landed on "the top of his back", thus he decided against the red card.Â
Either way, the tackle insured that Scotland would be facing an uphill battle from the very start. Given the magnitude of the match and despite some genuine injury concerns, it see…





