THIS was the 1956 Murrayfield encounter between Scotland and England that had a certain contradiction at its heart. As the Glasgow Herald match report put it: “A full-blooded Scot kicked three beautiful goals from near the touchline yet Scotland lost for want of a successful goalkicker”. The answer to the riddle was J.D. (John David) Currie, who had been born to Scots parents but had chosen to play for England, where he had been born and where he had played his rugby. His clubs at the time were Oxford University and Bristol Clifton. “Scotland’s inability to produce reliable goalkickers would appear, therefore, to be a problem of training rather than of breeding”, our rugby correspondent continued.
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