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.

GRAEME CROSER AT CELTIC PARK: The past seven days have seen Leigh Griffiths locked in a personal battle with Finn Russell for custody of the back pages.

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.

Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has backed captain Stuart Hogg to bounce back from his horror miss against Ireland and lead the team with confidence against England next week.

Every morning at Pennyhill Park, Eddie Jones walks past a table in the hotel lobby offering free fruit and a collection of daily newspapers. On Tuesday they did not make for pleasant reading.

The Edinburgh flanker missed last week's Six Nations opener with Ireland in Dublin due to a thigh strain and his recall to Gregor Townsend's team is the only change from that defeat.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY AMITAI WINEHOUSE: Henry Slade is not worried. Sure, he might be a distance from England's Six Nations campaign right now but he's convinced they'll bounce back.

OLIVER HOLT AT MURRAYFIELD - The trees outside Murrayfield swayed in the gale and empty plastic coffee cups scattered. Storm Ciara was brewing, but Owen Farrell remained unfazed.

It was fitting that on a wild day in Edinburgh, England won back the Calcutta Cup thanks to a decisive intervention of Ellis Genge. He typified the spirit of defiance which propelled his side to victory.

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.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish Women's Rugby player being treated for coronavirus spent days training near to Team GB Olympians at their base in Loughborough before she was diagnosed.

Holland boss Ronald Koeman has backed wonderkid Matthijs de Ligt to cement himself firmly in the starting XI of Italian giants Juventus.

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

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.

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.

Holland midfielder Gini Wijnaldum backed up his powerful words on racism in football this week, by leading by example for his national team and making a visual statement.

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.

Dutch top-flight club FC Utrecht are preparing for legal action to fight the Royal Netherlands Football Association's decision to cancel the remainder of the league season.

Ed Sheeran recently made headlines by expanding his £3.7m (AUD $6.5m) 'mini-village' in his hometown of Suffolk by buying the home of a fourth neighbour.

It marks the latest addition to Sheeran's housing empire in Framlingham, Suffolk, which has ballooned in size after the pop star, 28, snapped up four of the surrounding properties.

The teenager, from Portsmouth, has created her own 'smile' bracelets to generate funds for cancer sufferers, and she was thrilled after Sheeran asked to wear one for his entire set.

She carved a name for herself as one of the famous Jackson siblings.

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.

The Shape of You hitmaker, 28, most recently said that he must carry a laminated picture of the Weasley twins from Harry Potter in his wallet at all times.

Modern Love viewers were shocked when Ed Sheeran randomly popped up in the middle of episode seven, making a brief yet amusing cameo as a homeless man with a thick West Country accent.

Star Wars fan Stuart Camp, 46, made £29.5million according to filings at Companies House under his company Grumpy Old Management while Ed Sheeran made £32.6million.

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.

Ed Sheeran has left Instagram for the foreseeable future.

Wiley dropped a second track, titled Eediyat Skengman 2, where he threatens to 'rip Stormzy's mum's weave off of her head' and takes aim at the rapper's absent father.

The two stars have been feuding since New Year's Day, when Wiley, 40, locked horns with Stormzy, 26, and criticised him for collaborating with Ed Sheeran.

Margaret Mackie, 83, lives in a care home in Edinburgh, and while she struggles to remember names, she stunned residents with a word-perfect rendition of the Sinatra classic.

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.

Amy Shark revealed acclaimed actor Russell Crowe set up her recent songwriting session with Ed Sheeran.

The pop superstar, 29, an avid follower of his local team Ipswich Town, is planning to fill his sprawling Suffolk estate with the patter of tiny feet - ten, to be precise.

Ed Sheeran's neighbour Anthony Robinson, who lives three properties along from the star in the village of Dennington, East Suffolk, has been granted permission to extend his back garden by 160 feet.

The singer-songwriter, 29, has a roost at his Suffolk mansion providing eggs from his kitchen garden.

Emma Watson cut a low-key figure as she stepped out with a male pal in Venice, California on Wednesday.

The actress, 33, and the businessman, 35, couldn't take their hands off each other as they strolled through Rome before taking a selfie at the iconic Trevi Fountain on Sunday.

Emma Watson's American accent has raised eyebrows following the release of Little Women's first official trailer.

The 29-year-old Parisian-born Brit looked like she had just rolled out of bed at Superba Food + Bread on Saturday

Emma Watson shared a passionate kiss with a mystery man as she stepped out for lunch in London on Thursday.

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.

Dr Paul Dean, 66, admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and will be sentenced next month. Parents at The Dragon School, Oxford, have been told of his conviction.

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, an early contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, argued that the Republicans, not the Democrats, have historically protected black voters' interests.

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

'I think he went 12 hours,' said Gomez, the GOP candidate in a bizarre debate moment. 'And I've gone a lot longer than that without having to go to the bathroom, sir, [during] my time in the SEAL teams'

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.'