Players are so proud of achieving the grand slam, it lives with them forever. It's because it's very difficult to do and requires a very polished side.
Was at Murrayfield for both the England and France matches. I was just a schoolboy, and at the latter match was surrounded by a large group of French supporters as I'd not been able to find my folks (in the Red Terrace). When the final whistle went they very graciously turned to me and shook my hand (before heading off to the pubs in town!).
Absolutely fantastic video. Great choice of music, great memories too from my youth. Scotland's first slam in fifty years if I remember rightly. Really well put together too, well done! Slàinte
Quinefan right you are - may I was recalling Bill McClaren commentary from the seventies. Either that or my furry auld heid cannae do arithmetic any more!
Quinefan Also, it occurs to me that in my head I still think of the 1990 slam as if it were yesterday. The day when Scotland overcame Carling's England side is etched in my memory as firmly as the day that my first son was born - despite the fact that, in the former case, more alcohol was consumed throughout the remainder of the day than my limited physique ought ever to have been subject to. To this day my liver bears the scars of that day. But that was now 30 years ago! It seems like yesterday to me and yet the Scottish slam half-life is still only half baked. If I have to wait another 29 years I will. It is plausible although whether my doctor would deem it feasible without numerous lifestyle changes is questionable. Let's just hope for a statistical anomaly meanwhile! Slàinte
I was named after Euan Kennedy. My father tried to Name me Finlay (Calder), David (Sole), Anthony (Stanger) and many others from the 1990 GS, but my mother was having none of it. Dad decided to go back a few years earlier for a name - my mum hadn’t heard of Euan Kennedy 😂
The soundtrack could have been more appropriate eg Bay City Rollers, Proclaimers, Cocteau Twins, Exploited etc amongst Scotland's finest musical talents and all around in the 80's
