Virtual launch of Six Nations offers surreal insight into fraught enterprise | Robert Kitson

The players will need to dig deep in this year’s championship with no such thing as certainty in rugby during the pandemicThese are surreal times and the Six Nations has certainly never seen a tournament launch like the unique 2021 Gogglebox edition. Even before Ireland’s Andy Farrell and Johnny Sexton started mouthing inaudibly from Dublin and the local IT staff began pulling their hair out, this year’s virtual babble-fest was always set to be a fraught enterprise and patience will be a virtue on every front in the next two months.In the absence of live spectators to supply the surround sound…