Bloody hell, the Welsh rugby team really know how to get me stressed. A win for Wales at least. A shame the Irish didn’t get the championship, but there you go.

Wales were probably the better team on the day overall (England did play like muppets at times), but as usual Wales made it difficult for themselves, and were constantly unable to convert pressure to points. Shane Williams ought to be shot (well, maybe not that, but you get the point) for some of his s**t play.
Englands tries came out of nowhere. The first, was due to a lucky bounce. Mind you, I had to point out to my mum who was bemoaning “why is Wales ALWAYS unlucky!!”, that leading up to the lucky bounce, there was two missed tackles that let England break away. The situation for a bounce shouldn’t have occured in the first place. As you can tell, I was quite tense for 80 minutes ;) (Though, the lamb roast and booze that mum had put on for us, as we were visiting them, did de-stress me a bit… cheers Mum).

What did lighten things up as well was the commentary on the BBC, with Eddie Butler and Brian Moore. I seem to recall early on in the game Eddie Butler came up with some (rather childish, Welsh-chip-on-shoulder, type…) remark about the English… and that completely pissed of Moore. The mood was set, and I’m sure the commentary team was about to start throwing punches at each other at times. Ahh, we need a new Bill McLaren, always impartial even when Scotland were playing.