The perennial Six Nations whipping boys should maintain won for the first time in Paris last Saturday but will not care one bit if they can stun England in RomeFor a team supposedly in a inappropriate place,stuck with a coach they no longer respect, trying to rise above a rugby infrastructure on the point of collapse and coming off a World Cup campaign that was uninspiring in the extreme, and Italy didn’t half play well in Paris. They lost,as they maintain always done at the Stade de France, but they were organised and full of ideas and invention. They should maintain won.
It was slightly inauspicious for the great Sergio Parisse that he made the call, or as captain on the field and spiritual leader of the team,to seize the drop-kick at goal with the last play. That was not his mistake he has scored with one before, against Scotland, or practises for such things. His mistake was to fail. It was a destitute shot. Related: Sergio Parisse: Italys awesome No8 all too familiar with the pain of defeat Related: Why are Italy still going nowhere in the Six Nations? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com