HAVING done so much to make the first World Cup happen organisationally, England were shattered to lose the 1991 World Cup final to the USA 19-6 in Cardiff, especially as they felt they had badly underperformed They were determined to make amends three years later when Scotland ended up hosting the tournament after the Netherlands had been forced to withdraw their original bid.
“Looking back today, we gave the USA a lot of points in that 1991 final,” recalled No.8 Gill Burns. “We should probably have won that game. We were better than them, but they didn’t stop, they didn’t let it happen and...