Peter Jackson's Six Nations review: Saluting Jacob Stockdale - the son of a preacher man

As Six Nations’ Grand Slams go, the one Rory Best collected amid the snowflakes at Twickenham beats them all.

Peter Jackson's Six Nations review: Saluting Jacob Stockdale - the son of a preacher man

Gauged on a sliding scale of grandiosity, it tops the lot.

How fitting that hot on the heels of Cheltenham the Irish untouchables should turn rugby’s seven-week steeplechase into the longest procession since Arkle won the second and third of his Gold Cup hat-trick in the mid-60s by a combined distance of 50 lengths.

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