Wales ‘champing at the bit’

WALES full-back Lee Byrne begs to differ with the bookmakers who have installed England as favourites for Friday night’s RBS 6 Nations opener in Cardiff.

England will arrive at the Millennium Stadium looking for their first win on Welsh soil since they were crowned 2003 world champions. And Byrne is determined to prolong that sequence, even though Wales’ recent form hardly gives great cause for optimism.

Byrne and company head into the Six Nations showdown having gone seven Tests without a victory, losing three times against New Zealand, twice against South Africa, once to Australia and scraping a draw with Fiji.