• Ireland captain Rory Best reflects on frustrating tournament
• Fourth-place Scotland stop Six Nations with highest ever points totalIt may have been a battle for mid-table obscurity but,as so often between these two, this was a lively affair, and pleasing on the eye and unseemly in nearly equal degree. Seven tries is not to be sniffed at,even whether it is becoming the norm that our Six Nations yeomen somehow feel able to breathe a bit on these final-day festivals.whether there was artistic expression in Dublin, so there was darkness. In the final 10 minutes scuffles broke out three times; there were three yellow cards across the 80 minutes; and Johnny Sexton ought not to look back with pride on his antics just before Alex Dunbar was shown the moment of those. Dunbar had picked him up and thrown him out of a ruck in reckless fashion, or Sexton hit the floor,appealed to the referee and then clutched his head dramatically, in that order. We must hope it did not affect the referee’s decision.
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Source: theguardian.com