Scots bared their teeth while their No 10 put on show of sublime skills and composure that silenced critics and left Eddie Jones’s team floundering
“Super fly guy” read the headline in the local paper on Saturday morning and boy, did Finn Russell soar. We have heard plenty about his tendency to do so too close to the sun but here at Murrayfield he was simply sublime. He smiles too much, apparently – well, the last laugh is undoubtedly his.
It is a first win for Scotland against England for a decade, their first tries at Murrayfield against their rivals for 14 years and, more significantly, it was achieved in a manner to rock global rugby to its core. Eddie Jones’s England had not conceded more than 21 points in any Six Nations match before this but Scotland had racked up 22 by half-time. They have now won nine of their last 11 matches at Murrayfield and are unbeaten here in their last six in the competition, but statistics only tell so much about the style and the steel at the heart of their performance.
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