Scotland 'victory' T-shirts can inspire England | Thebigtip

Although the thought of defeating Scotland at the home of Scottish Rugby (and a fortress by anyone's standards to boot) should be enough of an incentive for England to do all they can to beat a new look Scotland team, Scotland have nevertheless managed to add more fuel to the fire by selling online (albeit "accidently") T-shirts branded with the words "Calcutta Cup winners".

Despite the fact that Scotland managed to pull the shirts from their online store pretty quickly, the damage has certainly now been done, and the England players have received a massive motivational message even before their new coach, eager to prove himself, has had the chance to sit down and give the players the much-needed lecture regarding how important it is that the English team pull off a performance that starts to rebuild the pride lost in New Zealand. People looking for Betfair 6 Nations betting tips need to bear this in mind.

Bearing this in mind, it looks like the decision of the Scottish SRU to allow this mistake to occur is going to be regarded as one of the sillier decisions made in sport since Chelsea decided to start selling Robinho football shirts before they finalised his transfer. Fans of Betfair will be wondering what sort of impact this will have.

If Scotland can now go on and win the game, there is no doubt that the controversial and humiliating T-shirts episode will be rapidly forgotten, or perhaps only discussed as part of a wise and clever psychological approach to defeating the much criticised English team. However, should they lose the game, even by a narrow margin, it will be widely reported, in this country at least, that overconfidence creeping into the Scotland camp enabled the English to turn up with the right attitude on the day.