Horrible history for England in Rome with thrilling finale ahead
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Round five of the Six Nations is in the books and it will go down as one of the great weekends in the tournament's history!
Alan and Charles are joined in studio by the Telegraph's Chief Sports Writer, Oliver Brown, to unpack England's defeat to Italy and their third of this year's championship.
Gavin Mairs checks in from the England camp in Verona to discuss the RFU's stance on under-fire coach Steve Borthwick who looks set to stay until at least the summer, despite the wretched campaign so far.
Next up for England is a trip to Paris to take on a French side who are no longer chasing a Grand Slam. That's because they were soundly beaten by a brilliant Scotland on Saturday, so we ask just how much credit Gregor Townsend is due for turning around his side's fortunes.
Scotland could go top of the standings if they beat their bogey side Ireland on the final weekend. It's a similar situation for Andy Farrell's men who got past Wales on Friday night in Dublin.
Plus we tackle all your questions as well!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
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| 0:47.8 | Hello there and welcome back to the Telegraph Rugby podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | My name is Alan Dimmock. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm commissioning editor for sport here at the Telegraph. |
| 0:55.9 | And what a weekend of Six Nations Rugby. And we've got Charles Richardson is with us as ever uh Charles lovely to have you here you had a fantastic |
| 1:01.4 | trip to Edinburgh we're going to talk to you about that in a bit but we're also joined by |
| 1:05.4 | Oliver Brown and Ollie what the hell was that weekend like? I was incredible. |
| 1:11.8 | I mean, an abiding memory is actually that Viali deli Olympiadi, which runs down to the |
| 1:17.5 | Olympic Stadium, just being absolutely full of England fans in the two hours beforehand, |
| 1:23.1 | just straining for any possible vantage point of that match of Murrayfield. |
| 1:28.5 | And as soon as that was over, this kind of prevailing sense of horror set in at what was unfolding in the second match. |
| 1:38.5 | Some confidence with that eight-point advantage, but at the end it's just become the bleakest reckoning, really. |
| 1:46.4 | Now, we're going to talk at great length about Ingan versus Italy, and just what that means for |
| 1:53.1 | all sorts of different people. Is that also one of those moments where you're like, I was there? |
| 1:59.1 | I think having written off Italy for the best part of Six Nations history |
| 2:04.8 | and saying that we definitely had to consider a trip to Tbilisi |
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