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you had to be there!!
source:bbc a sporting nation
the media hype in the build up was unprecedented. the perception of english arrogance in assuming they simply had to turn up to win was used to motivate the scots.
television pictures of english captain will carling telling his team mates that they were better than their opponents raised the heckles; of england grand slam 1990 t-shirts and ties being on sale in edinburgh heightened the frenzy, and when david sole led the scots on a slow, determined march out of the murrayfield tunnel, emotions were at fever pitch.