Scotland prop and devout Christian Euan Murray has questioned why Six Nations games are played on Sundays. He talks to Alasdair Reid in the Daily Telegraph.
"It was just another Sunday for Euan Murray. Church in the morning, an afternoon with the family, then back to church for the evening service. No different to how thousands of other devout Christians might have spent their day. No different, that is, if you overlook the fact that thousands of devout Scottish rugby supporters would rather he had spent his day with them.
"While Murray missed Scotland's opening match of the Six Nations championship against France on the basis that playing on a Sunday would go against his religious principles, the packed stands of Murrayfield witnessed a performance in which the home side's set-piece difficulties contributed heavily to their 18-9 loss to the French.
"Now, though, Murray is back in the side, ready to pit his particularly forceful brand of muscular Christianity against the Welsh pack in the Millennium Stadium tomorrow. His broad shoulders carry the weight of a nation's expectations – or at least the hope that Scotland can win in Cardiff for the first time since 2002."
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