SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: It was an amazing game of rugby for the crowd. I have been coming to Twickenham as a fan, player, coach and pundit for years and I have never seen anything like it.

Safe passage through a group that contains the No 2 ranked side in the world in Ireland and hosts Japan is the minimum expected of Gregor Townsend's men. Anything less would be an abject failure.

ROB ROBERTSON AT THE KOBE MISAKI STADIUM: Needing a bonus point win to keep their World Cup campaign alive, it took them until five minutes from time before they got that vital fourth try.

ROB ROBERTSON IN KOBE: Sean Maitland feared he had blown his big chance to grab Scotland the bonus point win needed to keep their World Cup dream alive.

ROB ROBERTSON IN SHIZUOKA STADIUM ECOPA:Scotland scrum-half George Horne scored a hat-trick as his side easily secured the bonus point win they needed against Russia.

SRU chiefs remain on a collision course with World Rugby after the decision on whether Sunday's make-or-break game with Japan goes ahead was delayed until the morning of the match.

World Rugby says it aims to make a decision on whether Scotland's storm-threatened clash with Japan on Sunday can go ahead as early as possible.

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.  

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.

CHRIS FOY IN JAPAN: The World Cup quarter-final line-up has now been finalised after hosts Japan booked their place in the knockout stages with a barnstorming victory over Scotland on Sunday.

The SRU was reprimanded following comments made by chief executive Mark Dodson during the World Cup in reference to a match against Japan potentially being cancelled.

Eddie Jones has made five changes to his England team for Saturday's Calcutta Cup clash against Scotland with Willi Heinz coming in for Ben Youngs at scrum-half.

After Liverpool wished him happy birthday on Twitter, the club's supporters inevitably took to social media to sing his praises after quickly becoming a fan favourite on Merseyside.

Despite being just 17-years-old, Liverpool starlet Ki-jana Hoever is making heads turn weekly. On the brink of U17 World Cup glory with Holland, Sportsmail takes a look at the 'new Van Dijk.'

Ruud Gullit (right) treated football fans to a throwback photo of himself posing with fellow Holland legends Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard (left).

Holland and Liverpool star Gini Wijnaldum says he would walk from the pitch were he to be targeted with racial abuse, just as Ahmad Mendes Moreira was recently in a Dutch second division tie.

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

Barcelona had high hopes for Frenkie de Jong after winning the race to sign him last summer for £65million, but the 22-year-old has so far failed to live up to expectation at the Camp Nou.

Ed Sheeran has quietly donated 300 items of his wardrobe to a tiny charity in his hometown in Suffolk. The British singer has donated a strange plethora of items including ukuleles and trainers.

'I have social anxiety,' said Ed Sheeran, 28, who will finish his 893-day tour tomorrow after playing four nights in Ipswich in his home county of Suffolk.

Ed Sheeran has been making the most of his time off from music, as he reveals he has branched out into painting and opened a new pub with his manager.

Ed Sheeran supported his wife Cherry Seaborn from the sidelines of her hockey match in Suffolk on Saturday.

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.

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.

England cricket hero Ben Stokes, football ace Raheem Sterling and athletics star Dina Asher-Smith lead the nominees for the 2019 Sports Personality of the Year award.

Pelicano co-owner Andrew Becher said their landlord was pushing them out of their Double Bay building but the building owners claim it is in need of urgent renovations.

With the decade coming to a close in just a few weeks, Spotify has named Drake and Ed Sheeran the music streaming service's Most Streamed Artists of The Decade.

The Shape of You hitmaker, 28, wrapped up warmly in a black patterned padded coat with a beanie hat and comfy-looking tracksuit bottoms.

Researchers looked at Spotify playlists that contain the words 'holiday playlist', 'beach playlist', 'summer tunes', 'summer time songs' and 'holiday playlist 2020' to find the 100 most popular tunes.

The 'news story' about the case of mistaken identity was reported during the show on Thursday morning, with the Australian presenters giggling about the bizarre tale.

The actress, 29, slipped into a white bikini as she enjoyed some sun-soaked downtime on a getaway to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico on Tuesday.

It's been twenty years since they first met at Emma Watson's screen test for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise.

Brit Terri Seymour, 47, who dated Simon Cowell between 2002 and 2008, was standing in today for Ross King on Lorraine, but viewers were distracted from her Hollywood gossip by her 'broken' voice.

They were catapulted to fame almost 20 years ago when, as young children, they were cast as Hermione Granger and villain Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.

The actress, 29, and her one-time crush, 31 - who portrayed Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy in the wizard franchise - posted a snap on Monday, which sent die-hard fans into overdrive.

Saoirse Ronan, 25, Emma Watson, 29, Florence Pugh, 23, and Eliza Scanlen, 20, play the March sister's in Greta Gerwig's adaption of Little Women with Meryl Streep, 70, as Aunt March.

On Tuesday, two movie posters for Little Women were released for fans. Twitter roasted the movie posters for the lack of creativity from the studio.

JANET STREET-PORTER: Somehow, in spite of all her good points and natural assets, Emma Watson manages to be one of the most annoying people around.

Speaking exclusively with MailOnline, the actor, 32, called the Little Women star, 29, an 'incredibly smart and lovely young lady', before admitting he was also 'happily self-partnered.'

The actress, 29, couldn't hide her delight as she posed for a snap alongside Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch and Bonnie Wright in a photo shared to Instagram.  

William Hilton Paul, 19, (pictured) the son of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was arrested last night at Charlotte Douglas International Airport and charged with disorderly conduct and being intoxicated and disruptive.

The Air Force has erased data on drone strikes in Afghanistan from their most recent report that was released just one day after Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster on Wednesday.

Kentucky's Republican Sen. Rand Paul put himself in the forefront of early presidential candidate speculation winning this year's Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll with 25 per cent of the vote.

Paul told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace: 'I don't want to promote that but I also don't want to put people in jail who make the mistake.

Kentucky senator mocks Obama's U.S. health care overhaul, as new poll shows 54 percent of Americans don't support the Obamacare law

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul hit back at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the two Republicans’ ongoing spat over national security, calling the plus-sized pol the 'king of bacon'

Sen. Paul had suggested the two bury the hatchet over a beer, but Gov. Christie told a radio audience that 'if I find myself down in Washington, I'll certainly look him up, but I don't suspect I'll be there anytime soon.'

Palin attributed Christie's growing popularity to what she called a 'YouTube videographer' who follows him around and manufactures situations that will give him an edge over his competition.

The profile describes the blonde and quick-witted Kelley as 'more than a pretty image-softener' for the 'famously dour' senator.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the conference's presidential preference straw poll, a symbolic victory that reflects his popularity among conservatives who typically hold outsized influence in the GOP's presidential selection process.