| Description | The big sheet is accompanied by notes, including descriptions of the match and score, an annotated programme, short biographies of Italy's players written in Italian and cuttings from The Times and other unidentified newspapers. One of the cuttings is a report by Bill McLaren entitled 'Forwards' go-slow on Christmas deliveries'. The bundle also includes cuttings from the Glasgow Heralds of 14 April 1986 and 11 April 1988 reporting on Italy Under-19 v. Scotland Under-19 matches in Piacenza and Villorba.
The match score was Scotland A 22 - 17 Italy.
Scotland A
Team: Gavin Hastings, Derek Stark, Gregor Townsend, Scott Hastings, Mark Appleson, Craig Chalmers, Gary Armstrong, Peter Jones, Ian Corcoran, Paul Burnell, Damian Cronin, Doddie Weir, Carl Hogg, Stuart Reid and Ian Smith.
Replacements: Ken Logan, Graham Shiel, Andrew Nicol, Iain Morrison, Peter Wright and Martin Scott.
President: Robin Charters.
Coaches: David Johnston and Hugh Campbell.
Physiotherapist: Colin Elliot.
Italy
Team: Luigi Troiani, Paolo Vaccari, Stefano Barba, Ivan Francescato, Marcello Cuttitta, Diego Dominguez, Umberto Caselatto [Casellato], Massimo Cuttitta, Carlo Orlandi, Giovanni Grespan, Pietro Reale, Carlo Chechinato [Checchinato], Stefano Rigo, Julian Gardner and Massimo Giovanelli.
Replacements: Alberto Marengoni, Antonio Piazza, Ramiro Cassina, Francesco Pietrosanti, Mauro Tommasi and Massimo Bonomi.
President: Giancarlo Dondi.
Coach: Bertrand Fourcade.
Physiotherapists: Mario Palma and Renato Galletelli.
Medical officer: Felice di Domenica.
Referee: Ronnie McDowell.
Assistant referees / touch judges: Jim Fleming and John Bacigalupo.
Groundsman: Eric Grainger. |