Scottish gaffe as ‘Winners’ T-shirts go on sale early

The Scottish Rugby Union have been left red-faced after T-shirts boasting of a Calcutta Cup win appeared on sale five days before this Saturday’s match.

The mistake by the SRU’s online retail partner led to T-shirts from Scotland’s win in 2008 being re-released.

The shirts bore the logo: “Calcutta Cup. Scotland. Winners.” The blunder comes days after Scotland head coach Andy Robinson stood by comments he made after the World Cup accusing England of ‘arrogance’.

A spokesman for the retailer said: “This was nothing more than an administrative error with some old stock ending up on the website by mistake. These T-shirts were hugely popular back in 2008 when Scotland last took Calcutta Cup honours and hopefully this will be a good omen for Saturday.”