Ireland’s Rory Best looking for the edge to combat England’s Dylan Hartley

Needle may be in short supply in the buildup to Ireland’s Six Nations clash with England but both Rory Best and Eoin Reddan believe that makes Stuart Lancaster’s men all the more dangerous

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Either the Ireland squad are on message about loving thy neighbour or the adage that familiarity breeds contempt does not wash in these parts. Between them Eoin Reddan and Rory Best have 138 caps, of which 13 were picked up against England. Never mind the many meetings with English opposition at club level, there are enough international scrapes, certainly for Best, to have left a few scars. If so, none of them are visible.

Sunday will be a brutal Test match. And its least forgiving area will be in the front row where Best, recovered fully from the concussion picked up against France, will be head to head with the combustible Dylan Hartley. Previous meetings have been fractious.

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