ASKED just before kick-off in Dublin last weekend about Sale’s chances of beating Leinster, TNT Sports pundit Stuart Hogg told viewers: “They have come across with every intention of winning.’’
The Scottish Lion said so with a straight face as if unaware that the Sharks, far from being armed to the teeth, had left the majority of their big fish, notably George Ford and Manu Tuilagi, on the other side of the Irish Sea. How that can be interpreted as ‘every intention of winning’ defies belief. In the Scottish Borders country around Hogg’s...