O'Driscoll inspires Ireland in battle of attrition
John O'Sullivan reports from Croke Park where Ireland kept their Grand Slam dream alive with victory over England. Read his report in the Irish Times.
"Ireland will reflect on this 80 minutes at Croke Park grateful for several outstanding individual performances but primarily for the fact that England once again displayed such gross indiscipline that ultimately proved their undoing.
"...England coach Martin Johnson should be livid because those indiscretions plus another ridiculously high penalty count effectively cost the visitors the match. His Ireland counterpart Declan Kidney will be grateful to have escaped on a day when Ireland huffed and puffed but lacked the vision to get around a resolute English defence. Kick and chase and lumbering carries around the fringes were never going to discommode England unduly unless the latter was done at pace. It was largely missing all evening."
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