With the last installment of the Calcuta Cup that will take place on Twickenham on Saturday, Scotland will seek to continue its recent dominance over England by turning it into a record of five victories in a row.
However, when the six nations emerged for the first time 25 years ago, it was a very different story for the Scots in the oldest rivalry of rugby.
They were in a 10 -year sterile race against Auld's enemy, which included losing the 1991 World Cup semifinal in their homeland, and were supporting a miserable championship.
Nobody could have planned memorable since Scotland won 19-13 in monsoon conditions to deny England the Grand Slam, Duncan Hodge scored all the points of the local team with four penalties, an attempt and a conversion.
There was also controversy, with the players of England accused of describing the presentation of the trophy, made by Princess Anne, then in an attack of High Dudgeon.
Mail sport The columnist Andy Nicol was the captain of Scotland that famous day, and here he remembers the internal history of one of the best days of his career and history of the Scottish rugby.
A bleeding Nicol greets the crowd after a very close victory in Monzón conditions
Nicol lifts the Calcuta Cup, to delight Murrayfield, after denying England a great blow
The accumulation
It had been a very brutal tournament for us. We lost to the newcomers Italy in the opening game. We had played four and lost four, while England had played four and won four.
We had not defeated England in 10 years at home or outside, since we won Grand Slam in 1990. Therefore, the expectation in the press and among fans was that we would lose, and we would probably lose a lot.
Ian McGeechan called me his apartment in Roseburn the previous week and presented the plan very clearly. He said very calmly and naturally: 'Well, Andy, I'm making you captain, and that's how we are going to beat England.
I went home that night and told my wife. I wasn't sure I really believed any of that! But I felt it was possible. Every time Geech spoke to you one like that, you heard.
We spent the rest of the week training just making sure that men buy the plan. Some of them took a lot of convincing, and understandably, since we had lost the four games.
Many people only expected it to be a procession and that England won the Grand Slam. I think some Scotland fans even gave their tickets because they could not face the possibility of seeing England win.
But we felt that we had improved throughout the championship and we were probably better than our results suggested. Especially in Cardiff, we sometimes play against Wales despite the defeat.
It was a game that was really waiting. I met many of the English children. Mike Catt, for example, had been a ujier at my wedding a couple of years before.
I had a good relationship with enough that played against them when I was in Bath. Although I knew it would be difficult, I was anxious to have the opportunity to get caught in them.
Scotland had been embarrassed by the newly arrived Italy in their first Six Nations game
The English had had the wood in Scotland, going 10 years without defeat, including the hard 9-6 victory in the 1991 World Cup semifinal in Murrayfield
Nicol releases the ball from a scrum despite the best intentions of England Mattson's rival
The game
We knew that the weather forecast was not good and there was supposedly some kind of hailstorm that reaches mid -afternoon.
The first half was really well. We were 10-9 low in part time, so we felt we were still well in the game. Geech had a plan and, in general, it was working.
We knew that Matt Dawson generated a lot of speed in the game of England, so we always make sure to have someone more than 10 yards from where he was receiving a quick penalty or a free kick.
It was a quite simple tactic, but it worked. When Dawson was fast, we basically ignored and backed it on 10 yards. It allowed us to close it in a different way.
But I remember going down the tunnel to run over the second half and the wind and the rain were flying you immediately. It was actually the Aguanieve that had entered.
In the second half, it was actually easier to play without the ball than with the ball. Every time we receive it, we kicked it in the middle of England.
It was much easier to defend than the attack. I do not remember spending the ball even once in those last 20 minutes or so.
Jonny Wilkinson had a quite quiet game because it was almost impossible to make something attack. We feel that Dawson was the main man we needed to close, which we did.
Each Tackle we did in those last 20 minutes, the crowd roared us as if we had noted an attempt. It seemed that 60,000 people were doing the curse with us.
Geech got it tactically. They were probably the most brutal conditions I have played, but she made sure we played the game in the middle of England as much as possible. It was a simple game plan and we executed it well.
Austin Healy stops dry for the combined efforts of Chris Paterson and John Leslie
James McLaren stir through the flank of England Neil back while Scotland goes to the uproar
Duncan Hodge, who scored the 19 points of Scotland, celebrates his attempt
The consequences
We went to a kind of improvised return of honor just after the full -time whistle, while many players in England headed directly to the tunnel and entered the locker room.
That caused some controversy. They had still won the Six Nations Championship, but there were suggestions that had effectively rejected the presentation of the trophy. I didn't see it as. I never thought sour grapes.
It was a horrible dichotomy for them. They were annoying that they had lost the game, angry had lost the opportunity to win the Grand Slam, but they still had to put a face and raise and collect a trophy.
Emotionally, all experience must have been totally incongruous for them. But it was very cold. Honestly, you would not have taken the dog in those conditions.
So I don't really blame most of England's players to go back and try to warm up. Phil Greening, his prostitute, caught some kind of hypothermia form!
Four types to which I will give credit in the England team were Captain Dawson, Catt, Lawrence Dallaglio and Jason Leonard.
Although we were doing an honor, they still waited for us and applauded us from the countryside, which was the tradition.
They could easily return to the locker room with the rest of the team, but they waited for us. Just play for them for doing that.
A delusional Murrayfield celebrates while England is defeated for the first time in 10 years
Nicol and his victorious teammates react in the final whistle, but it is the discouragement for Matt Dawson
Mike Catt was one of the ujidores at my wedding and one of England's few players to congratulate me full time … although I also had good reasons to apologize!
I still have a good relationship with those four types. As I said, Catty had been a ujier at my wedding, and he told me later that night that he had hit me at the bottom of a ruck and made me need six points on my chin.
If I'm honest, I really don't remember what Princess Anne told me when I went up to collect the trophy.
I have seen the video and I know I had a conversation with her. I think she said something about the atmosphere and how horrible the conditions had been, but I can't remember exactly. He went up in one ear and out of the other.
I remember walking through the steps holding the trophy after the presentation and Dougie Donnelly and the BBC were waiting for me.
I did an interview with Dougie and my lower lip was trembling.
One thing that I am really proud is the fact that I was the first Scottish to lift the Calcuta Cup in Murrayfield. Previously, when we won in 1990, the trophy appeared at a dinner after the game.
I would differentiate between the highlights of my career and the greatest achievement of my career.
Captain Bath at the Heineken Cup in 1998, and become the first British player to lift that trophy, was my greatest achievement. But that day, lifting the Calcutta Cup as a captain and spoiling the party of England, was the highlight.