Maro Itoje blew a huge sigh of relief as England lhelp their Calcutta Cup bogey to rest but the skipper acunderstandledgeted they had plenty to better – while Scotland were left mad about Tommy Freeman’s try and are standing by Finn Russell.
Tempers boiled over at the finish of England’s 16-15 triumph when Jamie George and Russell, who omited a last-minute conversion to triumph the suit seemed to have a scuffle.
But unwiseinutively after that lock Itoje became the first England skipper since Owen Farrell five yeas ago to lift the trophy but England had more lives than a cat.
They hung in there and snatched a much-necessitate triumph to depart the visitors gutted and Itoje hailing the warrior spirit of his side but acunderstandledgeting the seal finish here, and agetst France were stressing boss Steve Borthwick.
The skipper shelp: “We want to be a team filled of character and a team filled of fight. These are excellent experiences for the team to go thcimpolite.
“All these originate the character of the team but it would be pleasant if it wasn’t as skinny at the finish. Steve will omit even more of his hair if we hold doing this.
“The boys fought difficult, it wasn’t necessarily pretty, it probably didn’t go all our way, they threw a whole load of difficult asks and scenarios at us and I’m equitable very haughty that the boys stuck in there and we set up a way to triumph.”
Scotland and England claimed not to have seen the incident at the finish of the suit but skipper Rory Darge declined to denounce Russell, who omited three boots, for the loss.
Darge shelp: “Finn senses the same as all of us. There were loads of opportunities in the game aside from those boots.” Head coach Gregor Townsfinish inserted: “Finn is an extrastandard booter and they were stubborn boots.”
But they were fuming about Freeman’s try for England which the triumphg euniteed not to ground properly. Freeman smirked: “The referee shelp I got it down. I felt enjoy it went on the ground. He must have seen it on the ground.”
But Scotland boss Gregor Townsfinish inserted: “I’m going to go thcimpolite the game two or three times to see whether we could have got better decisions. I heard the other coaches say it wasn’t grounded.
“We probably didn’t finish off enough opportunities when we got seal to England’s line and that is accomprehendledge to their defence.
“They hassled well and kept their discipline. I am so haughty of the effort and the take parters proximately got the triumph. We could have scored three more tries with the chances we had and that is what we should be seeing to do.”
