Seymour was ‘Boyd’ by Welsh win and laughs off Butler gaffe

● The television commentator may not know his name but the winger sparked Scotland’s Murrayfield fightback last weekend

It is just as well that Tommy Seymour’s feathers are not easily ruffled because the BBC commentator last weekend had a good go at doing just that. Throughout the first half of the Wales game, Eddie Butler continually referred to the Scotland winger as “Tommy Boyd”. Every time he did so his co-commentator Chris Paterson would pointedly refer to “Tommy Seymour” but his hints fell on deaf ears. You have to hope that the spirit of the meticulous Bill Mclaren saw the funny side because Seymour, capped 34 times for Scotland, seems to have.

“I put up a tweet saying: “Oh Boyd, we enjoyed that,” says the winger more in jest than anger. “I have about three followers, Hoggy has about 56 (thousand). My mum, my sister, my brother would have had a chuckle at mine. The rest would have a chuckle at his.

“Of course I had a laugh at it. It was funny. Mate I have no idea who he was thinking of?

“You have to find it more funny than anything else. I certainly don’t worry if he gets my name wrong on television. I put more blame on Mossy [Paterson] than him. Maybe Mossy was enjoying the mistake a bit more.”

Seymour, Boyd and the remainder of the Scotland squad find themselves in uncharted territory. Three games down, enjoying the second break in the Six Nations, Scotland are still in contention for the Calcutta Cup, the Triple Crown and, whisper it, even the Six Nations championship itself. If you don’t need a stiff drink after that reality dawns then you haven’t been following Scottish rugby for as long as the rest of us.

The last time Scotland beat England at Twickenham in 1983 the BBC coverage of the game was followed by The Dukes of Hazzard, which should give you some sort of idea of the time scale involved not to mention the scale of the challenge confronting this squad next weekend.

England are not only looking for another win over the Scots, victory next Saturday would mean that Eddie Jones’ team will have equalled New Zealand’s 18-game winning streak in tier one international rugby; it only adds further zest to what is traditionally a spicy encounter.

“History is always going to come up and [there will] be a timeline back to 1983 in many articles,” says Seymour. “We have to ignore history and focus on where we are at the