Sometimes the scoreboard doesn’t lie. Want to take a quick guess when England last scored in excess of 20 points at Murrayfield? Here’s a clue: Hey Ya! by Outkast was number one in the UK charts that month, Mark Zuckerberg had just launched Facebook from his student bedroom and Sir Clive Woodward was still their head coach. Edinburgh is a beautiful city but it seldom sees the best of England’s attacking game.
Yes, the weather has often been shite. True there has been the occasional good result since 2004, not least the 20-0 win under Stuart Lancaster in 2014. Even then, though, they mustered only two tries despite being overwhelmingly superior on the day. On other days their failure to keep the scoreboard ticking has proven costly and allowed Scotland to ambush them with gleeful regularity.
