Results tagged “Simon Hodgkinson” from The Glaswegian - Talking Rugby

THE mere mention of France - ahead of Scotland’s trip to Paris this weekend - brings a warm glow to the heart. Though rest assured it has nothing to due with the two cognacs knocked back to erase the memory of Scotland’s dire show against Wales.

For it was as an impressionable young seven-year old that 15 men in royal blue made me glue my eyes towards rugby in the first place and there they have stayed ever since.

Watching them throughout their 1981 grandslam campaign stirred up this hack’s imagination - particularly the chap who played at full-back.