Venue: Velodrome, Marseilles

IT’S tough being Italy. Guess who are the one team in this year’s Six Nations required to play three away games on the bounce? And guess who are the only team required to make not one but two five-day turnarounds between matches? That really isn’t acceptable and the Six Nations committee deserve a rap over the knuckles for that but it would be churlish also not to also congratulate them on the inspired choice of the Velodrome in Marseilles as the venue for France’s game against Italy. France need to start holding more matches away from...