By Gary Watton
April 16 2013
Here, hot off the press, so to speak, are the fixtures for the Six Nations tournaments of 2014 and also 2015. They certainly make for interesting reading. At the risk of splitting hairs [something that I could never be accused of, very often!], it seems a trifle unfair for the teams who play on the Sunday afternoon, six days before the final Saturday of each tournament. In 2014 that will be England and Wales, and in 2015, it's France and Italy. Which teams are going to re-write the record books on such forthcoming occasions?
2014
Saturday, 1 February Wales v Italy (14:30 GMT), France v England (17:00 GMT)
Sunday, 2 February Ireland v Scotland (15:00 GMT)
Saturday, 8 February Ireland v Wales (14:30 GMT), Scotland v England (17:00 GMT)
Sunday, 9 February France v Italy (15:00 GMT)
Friday, 21 February Wales v France (20:00 GMT)
Saturday, 22 February Italy v Scotland (13:30 GMT), England v Ireland (16:00 GMT)
Saturday, 8 March Ireland v Italy (14:30 GMT), Scotland v France (17:00 GMT)
Sunday, 9 March England v Wales (15:00 GMT)
Saturday, 15 March Italy v England (12:30 GMT), Wales v Scotland (14:45 GMT), France v Ireland (17:00 GMT)
2015
Friday, 6 February Wales v England (20:05 GMT)
Saturday, 7 February Italy v Ireland (14:30 GMT), France v Scotland (17:00 GMT)
Saturday, 14 February England v Italy (14:30 GMT), Ireland v France (17:00 GMT)
Sunday, 15 February Scotland v Wales (15:00 GMT)
Saturday, 28 February Scotland v Italy (14:30 GMT), France v Wales (17:00 GMT)
Sunday, 1 March Ireland v England (15:00 GMT)
Saturday, 14 March Wales v Ireland (14:30 GMT), England v Scotland (17:00 GMT)
Sunday, 15 March Italy v France (15:00 GMT)
Saturday, 21 March Italy v Wales (12:30 GMT), Scotland v Ireland (14:30 GMT), England v France (17:00 GMT)