I've said this before- I wish all the home nations well in any sporting activity, though am English first.

An anti English feeling is now pervading sport, in that small minded non English Brits delight in our failures, and there are many.

BTW I'm not referring to the well taken gibes by Red Micra and the like.

This was highlighted to my abject horror a year or so ago when England played in the Six Nations at Murrayfield, and the pre match entertainment was a Nationalistic reenactment of Robert Bruce's getting one over on us.

Inappropriate, over the top and pathetic.

As a result of that and other actions in the same vein I now moderate my enthusiasm for our kindred cousins.

And that is a shame.