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When Elvis put Irish in heartbreak hotel…

HAD bonus points been in operation ten years ago, Ireland would have been spared the cruel fate of losing the Six Nations title to a man called Elvis, as in Vermeulen, the Clermont No.8. And it all happened on St Patrick’s Day.
Instead of being on the wrong side of a photofinish with France, Eddie O’Sullivan’s team would have been declared champions by virtue of a single losing bonus point – against France in Dublin.
Had it counted, Elvis’ try, in the last minute of the last match, for France against Scotland in Paris, would not have mattered. Ireland’s w...

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