The Spread

✽Today, many Irish eyes will be on Murrayfield, where Scotland meet Wales in the Six Nations.

Last week’s performance by Wales at home to England was great for roughly ten minutes, and utterly forgettable afterwards. The Welsh looked like a team treating this competition like a tune-up exercise for the World Cup, and that goes a long way towards explaining why the visitors are such narrow favourites with the bookies today.

Much as ...