The Gardeners' World Blog

Oh well, same old story in the Six Nations last weekend with all the usual ingredients - a fairytale comeback at Twickenham, refereeing controversy in Rome, and a charge-down try at Murrayfield.

Throw in another Irish Triple Crown and accusations of an O'Garroting for his fly half from coach Eddie O'Sullivan and there was barely room left in the papers for that classic FA Cup tie at Stamford Bridge.

And the great thing is that after France's Grand Slam ambitions became the last to be thwarted, this week's 'Super Saturday' finale could see champions crowned out of each of the three final games.

The star of the weekend was England's 35-year old captain Mike Catt. As Austin Healey illustrated at half-time of our broadcast, the normally cool Catt was visibly affected by the preliminaries and was over-anxious in a tight first half such was his keeness to lead his young team by example.