England need to slay the Dragons again in the rugby

Spread betting firm IG Sport preview the big Six Nations clash

England travel to the Millennium Stadium this weekend for a Valentine’s Day encounter with last year’s Grand Slam winners Wales. Here’s what our friends at IG Sport had to say about proceedings:

“Dragon slaying used to be easy for the English.  Back in the day all you needed was a lance, a stead and to have been canonized.  Things have got tougher since then!  Even the most diehard England rugby union fan could take little out of the Bergamasco fiasco last Saturday which produced a victory scoreline for England more flattering than a hippo, entering a ‘cutest smile’ competition for which the late replacement judge is a walrus and the work experience journalist covering the story just happens to be a mole!  A truer gauge of how far England have come (or indeed regressed) under Martin Johnson will come against Wales in Cardiff this weekend.  The Welsh are 9-12 point favourites on IG Sport’s supremacy line, a quote justified by their performance (for 60 minutes at least) against Scotland at the weekend.  The legend lives on, but in the real life, sometimes the dragon wins.”

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Posted: February 12th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn |