CHRIS FOY AT TWICKENHAM: Eddie Jones had all his selection decisions vindicated at Twickenham as England delivered another statement victory over Ireland.

Sportsmail runs the rule over every player from the two sides after a brutal Six Nations encounter at Twickenham that gives England a chance of glory thanks to their 24-12 victory.

England dominated from start to finish as they took a 24-12 victory over Ireland. Influential fly-half Johnny Sexton struggled to get into the game as England's defence barely gave him room to breathe.

England wore down Ireland with their physical approach on Sunday but it wasn't just the visitors who left Twickenham with some bruises to show for it.

HUGH MacDONALD: It is a testament to the power of sport in Ed Chamberlin's life that it both consoled and excited him as he laboured under the shadow of death.

Italy are meant to have lucrative a trip to Qatar in March that will include two friendly games as part of their preparations for the upcoming Euro 2020. But Roberto Mancini does not see this as tough enough.

Fiorentina playmaker Kevin-Prince Boateng has pledged to take his own measures to finally putting an end to vile racist abuse in football, by creating his own task force.

Italy is the worst affected country outside of China and the decision was made earlier in the week to suspend all sporting activity across the country until April 3.

The Serie A club confirmed their centre back Rugani has been infected by Covid-19 on Wednesday night and will undergo a period of isolation.

Rebel Wilson looked every bit the glamorous movie star when she stepped out for the world premiere of Cats in New York City on Monday. The 39-year-old looked stunning in a floor-length black gown.

Health officials say they discovered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - known to carry Zika virus and dengue - in York County, Nebraska, on Tuesday . It's the first time they've been seen in the state.

The contrast in difficulty is summed up by the fact that the bottom half has nations with a total of 20 major titles (11 World Cups and nine Euros), while there is a total of none in the top half.

One of Belgium, Croatia, Hungary, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and Wales are guaranteed a place in the final - none of whom have a major international honour to their name.

England booked their place in the semi-finals of the Under 21 European Championship by beating Poland in their last Group A game. Relive the action as it happened here with Tom Farmery.

Goals from Eric Dier and Marcus Rashford saw England come from behind to defeat Slovakia 2-1 to take a giant step towards qualifying for the World Cup next summer.

After the incredible drama of Wednesday's World Cup matches, Groups G and H could well provide a similar level of excitement. Here, Sportsmail runs through all the permutations...

Gareth Southgate's men are among the top seeds and will be in a five-team group while Wales and Scotland will join Germany in pot two and Northern Ireland and the Republic in pot three.

Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi has been handed his first England Under-21 call-up as he continues his rise. The forward has been included for the friendlies against Poland and Germany.

Aidy Boothroyd's side are in preparation mode for the European Championship finals as they trained at St George's Park on Wednesday ahead of friendlies with Poland and Germany.

DOMINIC KING AT ASHTON GATE: The result was not what Aidy Boothroyd wanted; there were elements of the performance, meanwhile, that will have left him shaking his head.

Our scout is a top football expert who attends matches each week searching for the next star. This week they give Sportsmail the lowdown on Bristol City midfielder Han-Noah Massengo.

All-rounder Ben Stokes kissed his partner Clare on the hallowed turf of the 'Home of Cricket' after he helped England win the trophy - less than a year after he was on trial over a late-night brawl.

Chloe Haines, 25, has been hit with a bill for £85,000 by Jet2 over her 'extremely disruptive behaviour' on a flight from Stansted to Turkey when she allegedly tried to 'storm the cockpit'.

Friends of Rihana Oksana Veovodina have demanded a public apology from Sultan Muhammad V, the ex-King of Malaysia, after he raised doubts about their baby son Leon's parentage.

Manodh Marks, the first person in Australia to be jailed for attempting to take control of an aircraft, could now be released from prison in two-and-a-half years.

Cases of dengue fever at sites in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reduced by 40 per cent after an international team of scientists injected mosquitoes with a strain of Wolbachia.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sam Ward is now facing a battle to continue playing after being struck in the face with a hockey ball during an Olympic Games qualifier this month.

Flight MH145 from Kuala Lumpur to Auckland was cancelled about 8.45pm on New Year's Day after passengers sat in the plane on the tarmac for hours.

The 83-year-old woman and her husband were among 145 passengers from the Westerdam cruise ship who flew to Malaysia on February 14, Malaysia's health ministry said in a statement.

Airlines are refusing to check in passengers trying to get on flights out of Australia if they are headed to locked down countries, as more and more close their borders against coronavirus.

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will carry out 51 engagements in nine days on their royal tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Jordan next month.

Kate Middleton, 38, paid a touching tribute to her children by wearing a £1,070 necklace by Daniella Draper as she arrived in Cardiff today. It was engraved with their initials 'G, L, C.'

The man, who died in Royal Perth Hospital, was one of the nearly 3,000 passengers who disembarked the ship in Sydney on March 19.

Julie Lamrock contracted coronavirus after she drove a passenger named Helen from Circular Quay to Campbelltown, in Sydney's western suburbs, on March 19.

Kiri-Lee Ryder, 44, attended a medical appointment onboard the cruise just hours before she disembarked in Sydney on March 19.

Prime Minister Hun Sen presented red roses and embraced hundreds as they joyously poured from the vessel at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville on Thursday.

Dashcam footage filmed in Krabi, southern Thailand, shows how the truck turns a corner, throwing cement all over the road, and causing a huge cloud of dust to cover a woman's car.

The Costa Fortuna (file photo) was denied permission to dock on the island of Phuket because 64 people on board had been in Italy in the last 14 days, Thai media said.

Anan Sahoh, 56, was found slumped on the passenger train on Monday after he was earlier seen 'coughing and vomiting'. CCTV footage from Bangkok showed him spitting in a man's face.

Executives at Netflix must be regarding it as a small miracle. Their big-budget, exquisitely acted drama The Two Popes is up for two Oscars at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony.

Austin Crusius, 30, is the older half brother of white supremacist El Paso Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius, 21. Austin, who lives in northern California, was once engaged to a Hispanic woman.

The 27-year-old singer released Rare on January 10 and has been going out to various stores to buy as many copies as she can in order to boost the record's chances of taking the top slot.

The stubborn pooch was filmed in a car park in Walmart in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. The recorder is heard saying 'What's up!' and 'I can see you!' but the dog continues to ignore him.

Hassan Akkad, who fled to the UK after he was imprisoned and tortured in Syria, is working at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London after deciding he had to do something to help.

Counter terrorism police have arrested a man suspected of travelling to Syria to engage in 'hostile activities'. 

Filmed by a passenger and posted on Facebook, the dramatic footage shows the brawl breaking out while the train waits at the platform at Highbury & Islington station in North London.

Londoners are getting riled up about the latest TfL announcements which inform travellers that their bus is about to move, but often only once the bus is already travelling away from the stop.

Police are investigating a hate crime after a commuter on the Tube was filmed hurling racist abuse at another passenger.

The mother, in her thirties, was targeted after getting on an eastbound Central line train from Oxford Circus with her two children, aged between two and five.

The altercation is believed to have broken out after two people got into an argument on a train, before it spilled out onto the platform at London Bridge.