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Ben Earl and Simon Easterby feature in today’s Six Nations news (Image: Getty)
A crunch finale to the 2025 will take place tomorrow with England holding a slim chance of winning the tournament. side are a point behind France and will be begging for rivals Scotland to pull off a major shock against Les Bleus.
England must also beat Wales in Cardiff to have any chance of winning the Six Nations for the first time 2020. France, whose only defeat came against the Red Roses, will host Scotland in Paris without star man Antoine Dupont following the serious knee injury he suffered against Ireland.
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Simon Easterby reveals Ireland ‘abuse’
Simon Easterby has fumed at the comments made by France boss Fabien Galthie in the aftermath of Antoine Dupont’s injury against Ireland.
Easterby has revealed that his players have suffered abuse after Galthie called the actions of an Irish duo “reprehensible”.
Dupont was injured after Irish forwards Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter cleared out of a ruck.
Galthie branded the actions of Beirne and Porter “reprehensible” and reported them to the match’s citing commissioner, but no action was taken.
Easterby is furious with the post-match actions of the French, saying: “Without getting myself into trouble here, I just think it’s the game unfortunately.
“No player goes out to intentionally injure another player. For everyone, or for the majority of people watching, looking at it afterwards, everyone felt like it was a rugby incident which was really unfortunate.
“Whatever the insinuations were from different people post-game, it’s disappointing because the unfortunate thing is people who don’t really understand the game pick up on it.”
Simon Easterby has slammed France (Image: Getty)
Ben Earl reveals England plan vs Wales
Ben Earl has revealed how England plan to approach their clash with Wales.
The flanker says England ideally need to win by four tries to have any chance of toppling France at the top of the standings.
“We probably do need to win with four tries if we want to win the tournament, but firstly we need to win,” said Earl.
“The moment we start to think we need to win by four, this game could really unravel.”