Eddie Jones's side looked on course for a comfortable win as they raced into a 31-0 lead, only for Finn Russell to inspire the visitors to an incredible second-half comeback. Relive the action here.

With 20 pool games played and 20 more to go, the 2019 Rugby World Cup has already delivered its fair share of shocks, upsets, brilliance and farce. Sportsmail answers 10 key questions.

COMMENT BY JOHN GREECHAN: This utter farce accurately reflects not merely a shambolic lack of leadership in World Rugby, but Scotland's continued status as an international irrelevance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Scotland captain Stuart Hogg is to seek out national icon Gavin Hastings for last-minute advice on how to lead the team from full-back in the Six Nations opener against Ireland.

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.

EXCLUSIVE BY CHRIS FOY: England are talking about Scottish dirty tricks again, ahead of their trip to Murrayfield, but John Barclay has dismissed what he considers to be familiar 'whinging'.

Watson sat out the 24-17 defeat to France in Paris with a calf injury and it was hoped he would return for the trip to Murrayfield, but forwards coach Matt Proudfoot confirmed he would not be fit.

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.

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.

Scotland host England in the second round of the 2020 Six Nations at BT Murrayfield in Edinburgh. Follow all the action here with Sportsmail's Ieuan Ivett as the sides battle for the Calcutta Cup.

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

Russell will not feature in the remaining games, against France on Sunday and Wales in Cardiff on March 14, as it is feared his arrival would detract from preparations for two games only six days apart.

De Ligt became the most sought after youngster in the world after a huge breakthrough season with Ajax, and he has attracted heavy interest from the likes of Juventus and Barcelona.

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.

Ed Sheeran's harmonica and model of his head have received visits from people all the way from Chicago - to the St Elizabeth Hospice shop in Suffolk, after he donated 300 items.

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.

The singer, 28, asked a member of his team to drop off the shoes at the St Elizabeth Hospice shop in Framlingham, Suffolk, which is close to where he grew up and still lives with now-wife Cherry Seaborn.

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.

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.

According to The Sun, the generous donation has gone toward several good causes including the children's hospital ward in Ipswich.

A London park has become the first in the world to ban pinatas. Myatt's Field Park in Camberwell, London has banned the party feature over fears of environmental damage.

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

British actor Rupert Grint, best known as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter, is now back on screen in the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant.

In an interview with author Valerie Hudson for Teen Vogue , the actress, 29, discussed her interests with the culture due to the level of communication and why she coined the phrase 'self-partnered'.

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.

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 Rand Paul wants to bring a class-action lawsuit to the Supreme Court against the government's phone and Internet anti-terrorism surveillance programs

'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'

Paul is blocking President Obama's choice to lead the FBI until he gets answers about how, when and how often federal law enforcement spies on us from above

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 lawsuit’s announcement comes only hours after the secret FISA court renewed the government’s permission Friday to collect bulk telephone metadata.

The Libertarian firebrand has his eyes focused on the presidency and aims to organize voters by branding NSA snooping as 'precisely the kind of overreach we fought a revolution over.'

If Kentucky Republicans refuse to change their primary election to a caucus so Paul can compete for both his Senate seat and the presidency, he'll have to move to Plan B.

Like Paul, the 52-year-old freshman senator who made a name for himself championing issues not typically associated with the GOP, the 'Rand' 2016 SWAG store is unique.

Earl Holt III, the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens whose website Charleston massacre shooter Dylann Roof cited in his 'manifesto', has donated $65,000 to Republicans.

DEJA VU? Eight days before Trump rival Rick Perry dropped out on September 11, The Donald publicly predicted it – and Perry issued a vehement denial.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul said he will vote for a resolution denying President Trump emergency powers to build his border wall, a move that could set up the first presidential veto.

The former Daily Show host shamed the Kentucky Republican during an interview with Fox News , branding Paul's decision 'absolutely outrageous.'

Republican Senator Rand Paul was blasted by a diner at a restaurant on Friday who told him she would not tolerate his 'Republican bulls**t.' Paul is in California to promote his new book.

Rand Paul, a GOP senator from Kentucky, has tested positive for coronavirus, his office announced Sunday. 'He is feeling fine and is in quarantine,' a tweet from his official Twitter account revealed.

Sunday night's episode of MasterChef ended with contestants Michelle, Metter and Samira in the bottom three after they failed to impress judges with their culinary skills.

Denise Valdez reveals her BIG cooking plans after being eliminated from MasterChef, with the hopes of starting a line of pickled jalapeños

Samira Damirova was booted from Masterchef on Monday night after failing to impress the judges with her recreation of an Imperial Mandarin dessert.

It was one of the most difficult challenges in MasterChef history.