Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotlandwinner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's Britainsnarling, brutish, and all-conquering. Scotland are the underdogssecond-class citizens from a land that's become the testing ground for the most unpopular tax in living memory: Thatcher's Poll Tax. Fifteen men in blue jerseys are plotting the downfall of the English oppressors. In Edinburgh, nationalism is rising highwhat happens in the stadium will resound...
Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotlandwinner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisph...