If you want to see Guscott's try again, click on the highlights tab at the top of this page. Penalty against Scotland, Lineen offside. England turning down the kick at goal, surprising that, bang in front. Teague on the charge but it's granite Scottish defence... Hodgkinson kicks direct into touch, it's a Scottish scrum...

England hooker Brian Moore: "The majority of the 1989 Lions squad was English and Scottish players, who actually got on very well. But because the players had lived in close harmony and battled together, when it came to playing against each other the rivalry was even more intense. You don't want to lose to someone you know well."

Hodgkinson of Nottingham misses the conversion. "They look like slippers, these boots they wear now," says Bill McLaren. If only Bill could see what they wear now... Teague from the back of the scrum, galloping into Scottish territory like a deer in the headlights, but Scotland eventually regroup...

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... and that's the class of Guscott - England scrum, Hill to Carling, Carling puts Guscott clear, the Bath man dummies Gavin Hastings and glides in for a peach of a try, England's first at Murrayfield for 10 years. England weather the early storm before hauling up the main mast...

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A lot made of the poshness of Carling's (pictured above in 1990) team in the build-up to this match, they've been painted in some quarters as Thatcher's shock troops, but the truth is rather different - seven public schoolboys in Scotland's starting line-up, six in England's. Nothing posh about Ackford and Dooley in England's second row, not when they're whacking you over the head with their police baton...

BBC One Former England captain Bill Beaumont

"England feel there's a slight weakness in the air with the Scottish wingers, and they'll look to exploit that."

Hesitancy from Scotland at the restart and Scotland scrum-half Armstrong, winning his 11th cap, is forced to clear. England go wide, Guscott carving open some space, but Underwood is unable to gather the chip one-handed and Scotland eventually clear after some handbags at the line-out.

Chalmers of Melrose and Scotland slippers another penalty between the posts and England are on the rack here, they just haven't been able to get hold of the bal...

They'll be dancing on the playing fields of Campion School in Essex as Damian Cronin takes a clean one at the line-out and Scotland swarm again. Lineen makes a half-break but is eventually snaffled by Carling. The touch judge has seen something... Probyn with a bit of a soft shoe shuffle on a Scot on the deck, in 25 years' time that might earn a red card...

BBC One Former England captain Bill Beaumont

"It's a very impressive start from Scotland, they've taken the game to England and that's the only way they're going to win today."

Another penalty for Scotland and Chalmers makes it this time, the Scots are swarming all over England in the early exchanges...

All sorts of trouble at scrum time and Scotland are eventually awarded a penalty as they get a nudge on. Flanker Calder to the fore in the early stages, he's the stuff of forwards coach Jim Telfer's maddest dreams. "England were driven back and the crowd went wilder than I had ever heard them before," says Telfer. "I felt a shiver. I can still close my eyes and see it..."

England hooker Brian Moore: "It's only when you travelled the world playing for England that you realised that everyone hated England. They hated us even when we weren't very good and when we did become good, even more so. It may well be true that Scotland fans support Scotland and anyone who plays against England. It's a bit small-minded, it betrays insecurity."

... we've got a solid wind in Edinburgh and Chalmers has pushed his kick wide up the uprights, despite giving it a rare old clump.

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Scotland: G Hastings, Stanger, S Hastings, Lineen, Tukalo; Chalmers, Armstrong; Sole (C), Milne, Burnell; Gray, Cronin; Jeffrey, Calder, White.

England: Hodgkinson, Halliday, Carling (C), Guscott, Underwood; Andrew, Hill; Rendall, Moore, Probyn; Dooley, Ackford; Skinner, Winterbottom, Teague.

Click play at the top of this page to see the match 'live', the immortal Bill McLaren the man on the mic.

Right, we're off, England fly-half Rob Andrew getting us under way. Calder down on a loose ball from the back of the line-out and a silly remark from an England player to Kiwi referee David Bishop gives Scotland yards and Sole opts to kick for goal. It's the hawk-eyed Craig Chalmers lining this one up, from just inside the England half...

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England welcomed onto the pitch by some "good-natured booing", according to Bill McLaren, before Scotland skipper David Sole leads his team on a slow march from the changing room. Not a new ploy, that, the Lions tried that trick on last year's Lions tour of Australia...

We are, of course, in the era of the underdog - two months ago, Buster Douglas shocked the world by knocking out the seemingly invincible Mike Tyson in Tokyo, while 100-1 shot Norton's Coin recently upset the beloved Desert Orchid to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup... and here they come..

We've got live build-up on the website from 1210 GMT, with the match kicking off about 10 minutes later. England, in fairness, should win this with something to spare, despite what promises to be a vociferous Murrayfield crowd. Carling's free-wheeling side have scored nine tries in four matches before today, to Scotland's three. Watch out for Carling's centre partner Jeremy Guscott, the kid is honey to Carling's vinegar.

Afternoon and welcome to coverage of the Five Nations, Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup decider between Scotland and England at Murrayfield (in case you were confused, it happened 25 years ago next Tuesday).

There's been plenty of hype in the build-up to this one and if you skipped O Level history, you might not have been able to keep up. One newspaper had England skipper Will Carling transposed onto the body of King Edward II, who was defeated by Scottish hero Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn. In 1314. At one point, Carling was moved to comment, "I wasn't exactly leading the charge at Culloden", a reference to the devastating Scottish defeat in 1746.