On Wednesday, Carrie Underwood was just one show away from wrapping the UK leg of her tour, with the UK's best-selling country act of all time, The Shires, as special guest.

Twitter users have shared their 'major anxiety' over the thought of trying to get tickets to Glastonbury Festival, with the first set of tickets for the event's 50th anniversary going on sale at 6pm today.

It doesn’t surprise me that Eddie Jones is still bitter about last year’s Calcutta Cup defeat at Murrayfield. England wiped the floor with Italy on Saturday and they will want to do the same against Scotland.

Flanker John Barclay will also win his first cap since March last year. The Edinburgh forward has not played for his country since rupturing his Achilles on his final outing for former employers Scarlets.

The 53-year-old had been working with the Rugby Football Union on youth development, but has now accepted a role north of the border. He had been considered to replace Eddie Jones as coach.

Finn Russell stole the limelight as Scotland put on a show in their final World Cup audition with a 44-10 thrashing of Georgia in Tbilisi.

RUGBY WORLD CUP DIARY: The World Cup has gone interstellar, with the help of Sergio Parisse. The legendary Italian No 8 has exchanged messages with astronaut Luca Parmitano.

The captain's run for Japan had an altogether more aquatic feel on Saturday morning as the players waded through a flooded tunnel out onto the pitch. 

Scotland suffered a devastating Rugby World Cup elimination at the hands of Japan, who made history by reaching the quarter-finals for the first time.  

Gregor Townsend insists Scotland can recover from their World Cup heartache - but knows they must learn from the mistakes that cost them in Japan.

ROB ROBERTSON IN YOKOHAMA: Japan took a stunning 28-21 victory in Yokahama. The result means that the host nation will now face South Africa in the quarter finals.

Greig Laidlaw has admitted he has a decision to make over whether to prolong his Scotland career. The scrum-half's last World Cup ended in agonising defeat to Japan on Sunday.

Saracens' case for their defence fell at La Defense as the besieged Barnet bashers were battered by Racing 92. The reigning Champions Cup holders took their biggest continental loss in two years.

Exeter Chiefs are desperate for their 'normal' squad to solve the European puzzle this year, having added Border piece Stuart Hogg. The 27-year-old Hawick-born full-back faces his old club.

CHRIS FOY AT THE AJ BELL STADIUM: Exeter extended their lead at the top of Pool Two of the Heineken Champions Cup with a close-fought 22-20 victory over Sale courtesy of Stuart Hogg (middle).

Tommy Seymour is the second player to retire from international rugby in the past seven days. Seymour has announced his decision on the heels of former Scotland captain John Barclay quitting. 

The 34-year-old Clermont scrum-half skippered the side in 39 out of his 76 international appearances, more times than any other player, and is Scotland's second-highest point scorer with 714.

Scotland lock Jonny Gray has signed a two-year deal to join Exeter Chiefs next season from Glasgow Warriors. Gray follows Stuart Hogg and Finn Russell in leaving Glasgow in recent times.

Finn Russell was dropped from Scotland's Six Nations opener after refusing to stop drinking at the team's hotel bar and then skipping training the following morning.

The headlines will have made painful reading for Stuart Hogg yesterday after his costly howler in Dublin, but I thought he fronted up well afterwards and stayed focused during the game.

England beat Scotland to lift the Calcutta Cup before an angry Eddie Jones laid into the Scottish yob who threw a beer bottle at his right-hand man.

Gregor Townsend has absolved Stuart Hogg from blame despite the Scotland skipper making his second costly mistake in as many Guinness Six Nations games.

Townsend has warned exile Russell that he will have to make the same 'sacrifices' as every other Scotland player - or be banished from his squad for the duration of the Six Nations.

The veteran fly-half's kicking was exemplary as he added the extras to tries from Jacques Vermeulen and Stuart Hogg as well as slotting over four penalties.

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: I try not to be overly partisan in my columns because I love good rugby and admire top-quality play from all teams, but I hope Scotland record a thumping win over Italy.

De Jong completed a big-money £65million move to the Spanish giants from Ajax in January and he will be officially unveiled as a Barcelona player on Friday.

Ajax have announced their star defender Matthijs De Ligt has been left out of their squad for their summer tour to Austria pending 'a possible transfer'.

The 35-year-old had been playing for Al-Gharafa in Qatar but images of him attending Utrecht's clash against VVV-Venlo caused a stir after they showed him to be carrying a few extra pounds.

Ronald Koeman has once again reiterated his desire to take over as Barcelona manager following Euro 2020 after it emerged this month that he is free to leave his Holland contract after the tournament ends.

Dutch footballer Memphis Depay has hit out at racist fans after yet another foul incident caused a football game between FC Den Bosch and Excelsior to be stopped on Sunday.

Ronald Koeman's Barcelona exit clause has been delayed until 2021 after the postponement of the European Championships this summer.

Ronald Koeman was one of the many candidates Barcelona had on their shortlist to replace Ernesto Valverde, but he said he was reluctant to leave the Netherlands so close to Euro 2020.

Inter Milan forward Romelu Lukaku has sent a message of support to former manager Ronald Koeman after he underwent a heart procedure in Amsterdam. 

The superstar musician's burgeoning domestic empire started in 2012, when he bought a modern farmhouse in the town of Framlingham.

The Grammy winner, 28, who is currently on his Divide tour in Hannover, Germany, took to Instagram on Friday to share the devastating news with fans.

The singer, 28, was joined by rap stars Jaykae and Aitch for the video and a stuntman while he rode around on a quad bike for the shoot.

Dubbed 'Sheeranville' the 16-acre Framlingham, Suffolk, pad has been growing month by month with the star snapping up five properties in the area for a total of £37 million.

Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch took a rare night off from parenting duties as they headed to Ed Sheeran's launch of his new bar Bertie Blossoms on Sunday.

Accounts released today show his UK company, Ed Sheeran Ltd, made a gross profit of £23,770,262, equating to £65,124 a day.

The singer, 28, surprisingly struggled to learn a selection of musical instruments during his childhood as he reflected on his rise to fame in his new documentary, In My Own Words.

Ed Sheeran drowned his sorrows after England's Rugby World Cup final defeat by singing in a Pokémon onsie at a Japanese karaoke bar on Sunday.

EXCLUSIVE: Expert genealogists have looked into the intriguing links between the Suffolk star, 28, and New Jersey-born Frank Sheeran - who actor Stephen Graham claimed was Ed's distant uncle.

The millionaire pop star, 28, lodged plans to open the 'prayer retreat' last month at his estate in Suffolk. But his local parish council has since stressed that the current plans are not legal.

The crooner, 39, is set to release Spectrum, an album featuring an Ed Sheeran written track, on Friday and said of the record: 'Spectrum feels more special that anything we've worked on before'

Internet 'touts' Peter Hunter and David Smith exploited the 'love and passion' of real fans through their fraudulent online business, Leeds Crown Court has heard.

Sarah and Daniel Hancock married in a whirlwind Las Vegas ceremony in April, eight months after meeting on TikTok. The couple are thought to be the first to meet and marry through the social media app.

Gino D'Acampo's son Luciano attended Tilly Ramsay's 18th birthday after she went public with her new beau despite her dad Gordon claiming they were dating weeks before.

The 26-year-old megastar, who headlined Glastonbury earlier this year, returned to Kensington Avenue Primary School in Thornton Heath, south London.

The rapper, 40, and the Crown hitmaker locked horns in an explosive feud after Wiley accused Stormzy of preventing Jay Z rapping on a song with Ed Sheeran.

The Mysterious Girl hitmaker, 46, penned: 'If you don't like each other take it to each other, don't bring each other's families into it man'