The Rebirth of the Murrayfield Roar Emotional Calcutta Cup Win Over the Auld Enemy Is the Perfect Vehicle for Scotland Supporters to Rediscover the Passion for Their Favourites

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IT WAS 14.30hrs, zero hour minus three. "The guy sitting next to you at Murrayfield will be quietly expecting a Scotland victory, " Craig Chalmers, optimist and international stand-off told the crowd of gathered businessmen and women. "Not if they are sitting next to me, bubba, " said Hugh MacDonald, pessimist and internationalist in standoffishness, lifting his large proboscis only momentarily from the corporate trough.

At 1930hrs, zero hour plus two, the most obdurate of sceptics let out a primal roar of relief and raised his hands aloft as if a demented choreography with the best part of 60,000 other participants. Scotland had beaten England. I know. I was there. I was that tartan footsoldier.

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The Rebirth of the Murrayfield Roar Emotional Calcutta Cup Win Over the Auld Enemy Is the Perfect Vehicle for Scotland Supporters to Rediscover the Passion for Their Favourites

It was a day when the gloom over Scottish rugby was dramatically lifted. The victory over France had certainly parted the skies. But a Calcutta Cup win, and the manner in which it was ach...

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