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SIX NATIONS ENGLAND 61 WHO CAN STOP EM?

Haye Wim double.. England thrash Scots to win title ... now for double Slam

- By Declan Taylor by Adam Hathaway

DAVID HAYE has set his sights on netting the world heavyweigh­t title again – before his son wins Wimbledon.

Haye knocked any thoughts of retiring on the head after serving up a thriller against Tony Bellew, despite getting stopped in the 11th round after earlier rupturing his Achilles tendon.

Now he has revealed his new dream double with his eight-year-old son Cassius emerging as a talented tennis player.

The Londoner said: “Maybe in five year’s time I’ll be next to Judy Murray in the players’ box at Wimbledon, you never know. My dream is to win the world heavyweigh­t title again and my son’s dream is to win Wimbledon – I’d love that.” EDDIE JONES warned England of Irish St Patrick’s weekend partypoope­rs after watching his side maul Scotland and land the Six Nations crown a week early.

This cakewalk sets England up for a second Grand Slam on the spin, when they head to Dublin on Saturday, and they have not managed that since Will Carling’s mob doubled up in 1992.

Back-to-back Slams have never been achieved in the SIX Nations and only happened five times in the tournament before it was expanded in 2000.

This was also an 18th straight win – equalling the All Blacks’ world record – and a record 11th straight win in the championsh­ip.

Jonathan Joseph did his best Jerry Guscott impression as he bagged a hat- trick inside 43 minutes and Owen Farrell kicked 26 points, suggesting all the smoke and mirrors about his injury was just that.

Farrell and George Ford handed Joseph the bullets and the Bath flier hit the target three times with a string of brilliant finishes.

But Jones warned his team to prepare for an Irish ambush next weekend – because they would love to knock England over on Paddy’s weekend.

Jones said: “Ireland are psychologi­cally in a very strong position. They are out of the tournament, they love spoiling parties and the party they would love to spoil most is the England party.

“We are vulnerable because we have won, we are champions of the Six Nations.

History

“We are in the most vulnerable state and we are going to have to work hard to get ourselves right for the game. And we will work hard and we will be right.

“We can go to Ireland and win the Grand Slam and no team in the history of the Six Nations has won back-to-back Slams.”

Joseph was dropped for the Italy game a fortnight ago but responded with his second Six Nations three- timer, only the great Brian O’Driscoll has done that and made it 16 tries in 32 games. Jones added: “He wouldn’t have got the ball anyway against Italy which I am still not very pleased about.

“He is one our first-choice players but I need to find depth in our squad and the Italian game was supposed to be an opportunit­y to find depth.”

England had stuttered to three wins without clicking but when it clicked someone was always going to cop it – and Scotland copped a proper hiding at HQ.

This equalled England’s biggest margin of victory over the Scots – they beat them 43-3 in 2001 under Clive Woodward and we all know what that team went on to achieve.

Scotland were down to 14 men after just two minutes when hooker Fraser Brown hit Elliot Daly late and then speared him into the ground. It should have been a red card but French ref Mathieu Raynal bottled it and gave him a yellow.

Rampant

By the time Brown came back England were nearly over the hills at 10- 0 up, with Joseph cutting Scotland to shreds from 30 metres out and Farrell nailing a penalty.

And the Scots were not much better with 15 men on the pitch, Joseph, Ford and Farrell cutting them to pieces.

The Scots had to rejig their backline with injuries to Stuart Hogg and Mark Bennett, and England were rampant as Joseph

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