‘Occasion too big for us’

of the upcoming games against France and Ireland respectively.

“I’m not sure what happened but if anything it fired up the boys even more,” said England scrum-half Danny Care, right.

“We knew we had to start well but the disappointing thing was we didn’t. They came out firing, had a couple of bounces of the ball, got that scoreboard ticking over and it was too far for us to claw it back. The boys were down afterwards but Dylan Hartley and Eddie Jones said, ‘let’s learn from this and use it as a springboard and maybe a bit of a wake-up call’.”

Jones said after just his second defeat in 26 Tests that England had been unable to handle the Murrayfield atmosphere.

“The occasion was too big for us. Scotland were too good for us,” said Jones. Scotland’s two-try hero Huw Jones revealed just what their first Calcutta Cup win for a decade meant.

“It means the world to all of us but for those guys that have been around for a while and had some not so good times in a Scotland shirt, it’s massive,” he said.

Several Scotland players were caught on social media in an Edinburgh nightspot on Saturday night taking part in a drunken rendition of Flower of Scotland which included crude anti-English additions. It was unclear from the video whether the players – Jones, Finn Russell and Greig Laidlaw, who was ripping the buttons off his own shirt as he sang – joined in with the insults.