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Six Nations: ‘We’re not playing history, we’re playing England’

by Our Sports Desk

ROSS FORD has told his Scotland teammates they should not fear another Calcutta Cup defeat to England but instead relish the chance to rewrite the history books.

The Edinburgh hooker and his front-row colleague Al Dickinson are the only men in the Dark Blues line-up for Scotland’s Six Nations opener who have tasted victory against the Auld Enemy.

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