If it wasn’t outright unwise for the speakers at Audi Field to play the US Eagles and Scotland on to the field with Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, it was surely tempting fate.
The sizable crowd – 17,418 – which came down to the banks of the Anacostia on a sticky night paid its money and took its chances, sure. So did World Rugby, which put the game on. And the Eagles didn’t score nothing. But the Scots mostly took their own chances, and by and large the Americans did not, and the result was a procession that in the second half, at least, descended slowly into the swamp.
