Proud Scots are no pushover

IT WASN’T just the tournament favourites Ireland who got a wake-up call on the first weekend of the RBS Six Nations Championship.

Scotland in Paris and Wales in Cardiff performed well enough to confirm Eddie O'Sullivan's view that "this is the most open Six Nations for a long time."

Crucial refereeing decisions at the Stade de France and in the Stadio Flaminio went against the underdogs, but isn't that invariably the case?