I grew up in Ireland listening to Bill. His voice will stay with me to the grave. Wonderful. The man from the borders with a wee sheep farm on the wing today. Love it so much. Best team game in the world
2:48 High tackles were just part of the game back then. Now we'd have 15 minutes of replays from every angle and a red card. Followed by a formal appeal inquest a few days later. [Note how Maclaren praises the tackle, then rather sheepishly mentions that the ref has awarded the penalty for it being high]
With more money, facilities and players than any other nation,, English rugby has clubs going bankrupt and a ridiculous committee/management structure that pays very well but has only produced 1 World Cup lead by an apparent football fan in the blowhard Woodward. Much less than the sum of its parts!!
@@ianroberts2121 From Wikipedia: "The song has been used as an anthem by the Scotland rugby union team, ever since the winger, Billy Steele, encouraged his team-mates to sing it on the British Lions tour of South Africa in 1974.[5] The song was adopted as the pre-game anthem for the 1990 Five Nations Championship, first non-officially for the initial home game against France,[6] then for the deciding match between Scotland and England at Murrayfield, which Scotland won 13-7 to win the Grand Slam.[7][8] The Scottish Football Association adopted "Flower of Scotland" as its pre-game national anthem in 1997[9] although it was first used by them in 1993.[10] Usually only the first and third verses are sung. The most common shouted interjections are "'Gainst who?" and "Bastards"."