Scotland attack coach Gregor Townsend played in only one win against England but believes the present side can double that figure He talks to Lewis Stuart in The Times
"It probably tells you everything about the relative strengths of English and Scottish rugby over the past couple of decades that if Gregor Townsend, the Scotland attack coach, does manage to plot his way to being involved in a Calcutta Cup victory on Saturday, it will be only the second win in a career where he broke the Scotland caps record before switching to a role in player development and coaching.
“The 2000 game, that would be the highlight of all the games I played against them, seeing as it was the only time we beat them,” Townsend recalled yesterday. “There were a couple of other memorable ones, the one we lost with Jonathan Callard’s lastsecond kick at goal, and the one in 1999 which was a cracking game and could have set us up for a grand slam, but we lost them both, so 2000 stands out by a long way.”
"In all, ten of his 84 caps came against England, at a time when the 1990 grand slam, complete with the great Murrayfield grudge match, and the near-miss in the 1991 World Cup were consigned to history and Scotland spent the rest of the decade floundering against the greater power and strength that England could bring to bear."
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