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Italy kick off

England have possession

Back with Italy. Ball ripped off Italian as England turn it over.

Back with Italy now. Here come the Italians, but the ball is knocked forward.

England throw in at line out. Maul. Ball's out Kicked down field. Parisse catches it... and run

Knock on!

Scrum England put in. Pen England- Italy COLLAPSES SCRUM

Farrell kicks for position.

England in possession

OWEN FARRELL-

His father is Andy Farrell, who played both for England's rugby league and rugby union sides.
Andy is now on the England Rugby Union's Coaching Team watching his son from Coaches Bench

He must be very proud of his son

Italy on the attack.. but loses it and England put ball out for END OF FIRST HALF

HALF TIME SCORE:

ENGLAND 24--- ITALY 6

Italy... back to England. Italian takes ball out

Throw in England on half way line. Driving maul. Italy turn it over messily. Scrum put in England

PEN ENGLAND for Italy not releasing. QUICK TAP

PEN ITALY... ENGLAND CROSSING

Italy went for touch

Throw in England now. Here come England again...... and it's a second TRY for MIKE BROWN! What a player he is!

In fact England have played very well in this championship!
FARRELL CONVERTS 4 / 4-- HIS FATHER MUST BE PROUD

Scrum Italy, ball out and whistle. Scrum again England it's out and Danny Care running and then Brown.... and they push on.....

PEN coming for England, but they are 7 metres from line. Care dummy... and they are still pushing. Game stopped and England coming back for their penalty.

England Kicked to touch. Throw in right on try line now. still England push.....nearly there.... YES FARRELL TOUCHES DOWN. His 2nd try in 24 matches.

Will he convert his own try? YES

SCORE- ENGLAND 17 -- ITALY 6

Throw in England and they are away.

England lose the ball. Orquera kicks to touch.

A LOT OF LOOSE BALLS TODAY :-S :-S

LINE OUT ENGLAND JUST INSIDE THEIR HALF... AND HERE THEY COME AGAIN

6 metres short. They push on. Linesman's flag gone up.

Italy win their line out Italy clear and a pen for Offside Owen Farrell.

Italy kick to clear their lines

Throw in Italy..they lose the ball...

HAS ANYONE NOTICED THE ITALIAN PLAYER THAT LOOKS LIKE RICHARD DREYFUSS? :-D :-D :-D

Line out and drive by England and here they come again.

Ball loose again! Gone forward- Scrum Italy

SCRUM DOWN - PEN ITALY

Here comes Orquera again..WILL HE DO IT? YES...STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE

ENGLAND 10 -- ITALY 6

ITALIANS HAVE TAKEN THE BALL FROM ENGLAND

ITALY SCRUM, England touched ball

Here come Italy on the attack now... but ball's gone loose.

LINE OUT TAKEN IN WRONG POSITION SO HAVE TO TAKE IT AGAIN.

England gets ball but knocked out of play.

England now but lost Italian runs for try. Held up by Farrell.

PEN ENGLAND Knock on by Nowell

brilliant play....leads to TRY by Mike Brown for England

Will Farrell convert? YES

SCORE 10-3 to ENGLAND

Italy throw in...

but here come England with the ball

HERE COME ENGLAND, BUT ITALY GETS THE BALL.

Ball is out. Throw in for England 12 yards out

Scrappy game at the moment

England have the ball, pushing near their try line. On the attack. Bad pass by England, knocked them back a bit. Interception by Italy. Bad handling- back to England- stolen!

PEN ENGLAND- ITALY PLAYER PLAYING BALL ON GROUND

FARRELL GOING FOR POST

YES and it's 3-3

Long clearance by Mike Brown.

Italy now has ball. lost a bit of momentum.

Scrum put in Italy. PEN ITALY Italian tried for drop goal, but missed. Now it's back for the penalty.

Luciano Orquera goes for goal penalty

and STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE

ITALY ON THE BOARD 3-0

England throw in at line out- successfully and they are on their way!

Ball loose picked up by Italy,- ITALY SCRUM.

Italy down blind side.

Italy still in possession, but taken by England.

England are in with a chance of winning this championship, but they have to win and WIN BIG!

Is our WEND here supporting her team? :-) :-)

and they've kicked off- OWEN FARELL

Here come the Anthems

FIRST....God Save The Queen for the English
THEN.....Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians)

FIVE MINUTES TO GO TO KICK-OFF

ENGLAND V ITALY

Here's the teams

ENGLAND:
M Brown, J Nowell, L Burrell, B Twelvetrees, J May, O Farrell, D Care,M Vunipola, D Hartley, D Wilson, J Launchbury, C Lawes, T Wood, C Robshaw Capt, B Morgan.

Replacements:
T Youngs, M Mullan, H Thoma, D Attwood, T Johnson, L Dickson, G Ford,
M Tuilagi.

ITALY:
L McLean, A Esposito, M Campagnaro, G Garcia, L Sarto, L Orquera, T Tebaldi, M Agüero, L Ghiraldini, L Cittadini, Q Geldenhuys, M Bortolami, J Furno, R Barbieri, S Parisse.

Replacements:
D Giazzon, M Rizzo, A De Marchi, G Biagi, P Derbyshire, E Gori, T Allan, A Masi.

AND HERE THE TEAMS COME

:-D :-D :-D John

Glad you had a lovely day :-) :-)

Enjoy the Rugby and thank you so much for your continuous support of OUR Rugby
Thread :-)

Usually like you a lot, Ems :-D <3 But hope you understand that we are sworn and bitter enemies till 4.20 approx today. Then we can do a happy conga, whatever result :-D :-D

Thanks to top GR reporter for making it all so clear. Increase her fee for next year, GR. Will be a gripping day to the very end if England beat Italy by a biggish margin.

Have put my pretend bet on Ireland :-D :-D

Jem. Went to near where George North was brought up yesterday. And back to Valleys. 10 hours quite quick driving. Yet we are called a SMALL country. I believe we would be larger than England if somebody could smooth out our wrinkles ;-)

GOOD MORNING TO ALL RUGBY FANS FROM "RADIO JEM" :-) :-)

TODAY:
THE FINAL 3 MATCHES IN THE 2014 RBS SIX NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP

ITALY V ENGLAND kick off 12.30

WALES V SCOTLAND kick off 2.45

FRANCE V IRELAND kick off 5.00

SO WHAT IS THE SITUATION AS THE TEAMS STEP OUT TODAY?

Well, as the Six Nations Championship 2014 reaches it's climax with it's final matches today- IRELAND, ENGLAND and FRANCE are all in with a chance of winning the title.

A win for Ireland could be enough to secure the Championship.

For ENGLAND to win, they need to have a SIZABLE VICTORY against Italy and must hope that FRANCE beat Ireland.

SO IT'S AN EXCITING DAY FOR RUGBY SUPPORTERS.

SO SWITCH ON, TUNE IN and SUPPORT YOUR TEAMS...

.....ESPECIALLY OF COURSE IF YOUR TEAM IS W-A-L-E-S! <3
who can't win, but want to win their final game v SCOTLAND (so sorry Emms but now we are opponents! :-| :-| :-D :-D :-D)

BBC 1 and RADIO JEM :-D