England thump hapless Scots

Scotland v England - Official Extended Highlights 8th February 2

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Luther Burrell and Mike Brown both scored as England produced a simple 20-0 win over a dreadful Scottish outfit at Murrayfield.

The pace was not perhaps as frenetic as we have come to expect from Calcutta Cup rugby, but tries from Burrell and the Man of the Match, Mike Brown, were more than enough to secure victory for England in Test rugby's oldest fixture.

Man of the Match: The chief contenders for this one were unsurprisingly all in white, with Danny Care and Billy Vunipola in particular picking up where they left off in Paris. The award was rightly handed to Brown, however, whose kicking was secure, running sharp with a whopping 114m gained, and bagged the try that killed the game.

Moment of the Match: Brown's try was the killer blow; silencing the last few spirited, optimistic souls in the home crowd, and ensuring there would be no Scottish revival.

Villain of the Match: Big Jim Hamilton, the enforcer of the Scottish pack, is proving himself something of a liability with the penalties he concedes. Warned by referee Craig Joubert in Dublin last week, his indiscipline yielded three penalties for an England team that needed no extra invitation.

Match Report from Planet Rugby

next test:

Feb 22

England v Ireland

Italy v Scotland

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Calcutta Cup

Named after the Calcutta Football Club which, after disbanding withdrew the club's Silver Rupees from the bank, and had them melted down and made into a cup which they presented to the RFU in 1878, with the provision that it should be competed for annually.

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