Writing in The Scotsman, Tom English offers an insight into his new book, The Grudge: Scotland vs. England, 1990.
"Scotland planned to walk out.
David Sole: "There's a gradual slope at the entrance to the pitch, so if you start jogging at the top you'll nearly be sprinting by the time you get to the bottom. You wanted to sprint. Everything in your body and the noise of the crowd was telling you to sprint. But we couldn't. We were walking.
"We emerged and a big roar went up and then a weird thing happened. It just subsided for a second or two. It was almost as if you could hear the thought process of more than 50,000 people. 'Hey, they're walking.' Then the roar came back and it sent a shiver through me."
Scotland lock Chris Gray: "I looked over at the English and they were going, 'Bloody Nora!'"
Moore: "No we weren't. People said we were quaking in our boots. Urban myth."
Carling: "I was talking to the guys, so we didn't see their famous walk. I heard the reaction to it, though. Jesus, did I hear it."
Ian McGeechan: "Myself and Jim missed it. We were walking under the stand – and the whole edifice shook. It was like a train passing overhead."
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