Truth is, Murrayfield is a hell of a place to lose if you’re English. And some of the older players in this England team are starting to get awfully familiar with the feeling, more than they’d like, for sure, and more, perhaps, than a lot of the men who used to wear those same white shirts would ever have imagined was possible back in their own playing days. This was Scotland’s fourth win in a row against England, the last time they put that many together was back in the 1970s. At least the first three in the run were close. This one was such a rout that by the end the crowd were too busy laughing at England to boo or whistle them.
It reached a nadir when Ollie Lawrence came barrelling down the left side and threw a wild pass towards Elliot Daly that flew yards wide and straight out of play. Steve Borthwick and his coaching team were standing right over him too, in the glass coaching booth at the back of the grandstand, with just a few thousand hooting Scottish fans between him and his team.
