Here’s Robert Kitson’s match report of England’s bonus-point victory in Rome:

“At least Eddie Jones’s side could await the outcome of the championship’s last tango in Paris knowing they could have done no more.”

Will it be enough? We will know in a few hours’ time. Thank you for reading today, have a good evening, and I sincerely hope you get the result you are hoping for later tonight! Bye.

My colleague Lee Calvert is going to bring you all the action from Paris this evening.

And he has pointed out, importantly, that if Ireland beat France by six points, they will win the championship on tries scored, presuming they score at least one try tonight. Will we see a nerve-jangling finale? Keep up with all the action here:

A sentiment we can all get behind ... let’s hope France v Ireland is a rip-roaring affair, in contrast to that mostly stodgy stuff we just saw from Rome:

Ben Youngs snaffled the man of the match vote, as you’d expect:

If you missed it - here is Paul Rees’ report from earlier today, after Scotland consigned Wales to a fifth straight defeat:

There’s a lot of speculation on Twitter that Boris Johnson’s press conference has been delayed because he was watching the rugby. Honesty is the best policy, Boris, is it true?

Here’s a clip of Jamie George’s try, when our referee got rather mixed up about where the try line actually was:

Owen Farrell speaks to ITV: “We’ve done our job, really ... we’ll wait and see now. We started the game well, at the start ... I thought we went at them. But there was a large chunk of the first half when we couldn’t get our hands on the ball, and we couldn’t get our game on the field, but that’s what international rugby is like sometimes ... we went in at half-time and we got the job done in the end. We’ll watch the game [in Paris] and we’ll see what happens.”

Clive Woodward: “You’ve got to say, Italy, second half, they just fell apart and England were far too strong. In the first half, they kicked the ball away too much ... it wasn’t a great game but they got the job done.”

Jonny Wilkinson on England’s efforts: “It’s a fair achievement, considering they haven’t had much rugby. At the end of the game, they still needed to pick up that bonus point, and they found a way to do it.”

Ben Youngs speaks to ITV: “It’s a nice milestone [reaching 100 caps for England] ... we spoke about it being a grinding-down process. We were camped on our own line, maybe that yellow card shook us up a little bit. We got there in the end.”

Youngs was excellent tonight, scoring two tries and creating plenty aside from that. His experience was essential at the times of the match when Italy were putting England under quite some pressure.

80 + 2 mins: England think they are going to have a chance for more points, but a penalty is reversed for an illegal neck roll by Stuart.

80 mins: Slade kicks a penalty for touch and England will have one more chance for some points ...

75 min: Italy win a penalty. At this rate, England will be praying that France can beat Ireland, because they don’t have enough points on the board to take the title on points difference if Ireland win. Gaps are opening up in the Italian defence, though, and Jones’s men will hope to grab at least one more try.

66 min: Around halfway, England win a penalty in contact via Stuart, and they kick for touch in the left-hand corner. Youngs makes another sniping run ... and Curry is in!

63 min: Possession for Italy - they move through several phases in the England 22, but the visitors’ tackling and defensive shape remains solid. Will Stuart is on for England. Ferrari came on for Italy after half-time, replacing Fischetti.

62 min: Here’s a clip of Youngs’ second try just after half-time:

59 min: Ellis Genge is on for England, Mako Vunipola off. England have 20 minutes or so to find another try, which would secure a bonus point after two tries for Ben Youngs and one for Jamie George.

58 min: England concede another penalty, this time for Jonny May holding on after the tackle, and the Italians celebrate passionately yet again. A good attacking platform for Italy results, with a line-out a few metres from the England line.

55 min: The England replacement Ben Earl concedes a penalty for a no-arms tackle. Italy have a spell of possession in midfield, and then kick back to Furbank in the full-back position.

54 min: Ollie Thorley comes on for England, for his debut, Anthony Watson goes off. Ben Earl is on for Underhill permanently, following that earlier blood injury.

50 min: Italy cough up a penalty for coming in at the side. England are starting to fizz a little bit now ... Jamie George thinks he’s scored a try after a driving maul, the referee thinks not, but it seems the ref is confused by where the line actually is. It’s a try!

48 min: When you think back to that thrilling finale to the 2015 championship, when England and France were running in tries like it was going out of fashion, this is a very poor spectacle in comparison. Farrell kicks possession away again. It does seem slightly bizarre that England are kicking so much when they need four tries minimum, as Woodward pointed out at the break.

46 min: England have a scrum in midfield. They win the ball cleanly at the set-piece and appear to have the perfect opportunity to run the ball, but Slade chooses to kick.

Matteo Minozzi then clashes heads with Jonny May, in an accidental collision, and he goes off with blood streaming from his face. Guglielmo Palazzani comes on.

43 min: A quite frankly stupid hit by Tom Curry on Mattia Bellini in the air. Curry escapes by giving away just a penalty. That could easily have been a yellow card for the visitors when they had just started to make progress again. This remains a very spiky affair, with both teams fired up. Polledri will be coming back on in three minutes.

Wilkinson: “You’ve got to get that composure back, you’ve got to accept what is, then you can get your feet on the ground and you can start moving. It’s a 40-minute game now, who cares what happened, it’s about what happens now.”

Woodward: “England have got to start playing properly. We’re a better team than them. There are times to throw some tea cups around, and that was a poor half by England.”

“The amount of ball we kicked away is crazy, considering the talent of this England team,” says Sir Clive.

“They’ve niggled England a bit now and England haven’t reacted too well, to be honest.”

Dallaglio asks: “Can Italy do that again for another 40 minutes?”

The studio pundits are now picking over that early England try, at which point, it looked like it might be a comfortable bonus-point win for Jones’s men.

40 min: Italy stream down to the other end of the pitch, and Luca Morisi nearly has the ball down in-goal as he and Furbank charge on to a bouncing ball. They both miss it, but Jonny May touches down in goal, and it’s no try.

38 min: England have an attacking line-out, and they get the drive on towards the line, but there’s a knock-on - but Polledri is sin-binned!

36 min: Ben Earl comes on, Underhill goes off with that blood injury. Can England find something positive to take into half-time? Italy have been the better team since that very positive opening for Eddie Jones’s men.

34 min: Italy shove a maul over the try line! But the referee rules that it’s held up, and Italy will now have a five-metre scrum. England are under tonnes of pressure ... but then they win a scrum penalty thanks to a particularly big shove by Sinckler. Italy lose their cool having been worked over at the scrum, and it’s another 10 metres. Slade takes the kick for touch, and England have relieved the pressure.

33 min: Jonny Hill is back on from the sin bin and we are 15 v 15 again. Italy are deep in English territory, they’ve already had one line-out and driving maul, and now they have an opportunity to have another go.

31 min: Again it’s Italian progress down the left wing - a lovely step inside and a surge by Mattia Bellini, then it’s hacked forward by an Italian boot, and Jonny May has to tidy things up at the back. Now there’s a scuffle involving Maro Itoje, Tom Curry and several others. Italy kick a penalty for touch, they have a line-out in a dangerous spot as far as England are concerned.

29 min: Italy make more inroads down that left wing, with Canna in the middle of the action again. Sam Underhill requires some treatment for a blood injury. We have reached the half-hour mark, and as things stand right now, England are going to have a job to register the bonus-point win that they almost certainly require to be champions.

27 min: The England full-back George Furbank strikes a brilliant kick for touch from inside England’s own 22, giving his team some field position, halfway inside Italian territory. Italy get the line-out right, and then there’s an error by Joseph out on England’s right, knocking it on. We thought England might look a bit ring-rusty, and after that bright start, some errors are now creeping in. Eddie Jones won’t be happy with this lack of precision.

22 min: The TMO is looking at a tackle by Jonny Hill, which replays suggest was a bit high. “For me it’s a penalty and yellow card,” says referee Pascal Gauzčre.

16 min: Jonny May tries to run on to a grubber kick by Youngs, but he can’t gather it and knocks it on.

15 min: All the early signs are that England’s power and precision is going to be far too much for Italy, but what is the winning margin going to be, and will it be enough to win the title?

11 min: England now have another scrum, inside the Italian 22. They move it through the hands out to the right, via Ben Youngs, then come back the same way, England’s powerful carriers causing plenty of problems for Italy’s defenders with short carries, grabbing a metre here or there.

9 min: Italy have their first put-in at a scrum now, but England demolish their opposition again up front, and England win the put-in. The referee Pascal Gauzčre is doing plenty of talking, and trying to establish the terms of engagement for these set-pieces.

3 min: The young Italian fly-half, Paolo Garbisi, makes a good catch and takes a mark in the Italian 22. Farrell then has another chance to kick, and England make headway into the red zone ... Tom Curry charges down a Garbisi kick, and it squirts out in the in-goal area, with Curry trying to chase it down.

2 min: England win a penalty at the first scrum of the match. Farrell kicks for touch, into the Italian half. “A nice start for England’s front eight,” says David Flatman on commentary.

Time for the national anthems, in front of an all-but empty Stadio Olimpico. Kick-off is imminent. Can England get the bonus point? Italy belt out their anthem with plenty of passion. They look fired up for this, and you can only imagine they will be very keen to show that they are not here today just to roll over and let England run in as many tries as they like.

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Before we start - here is Paul Rees’ match report from Scotland’s win against Wales:

Dallaglio: “England will break it into 20-minute blocks. If they play well at the start they’ll get their reward in the third and fourth quarters.”

Woodward: “I’m not with you, I think they should start really quickly, Italy will struggle with the sheer pace they play the game at.”

Woodward also said, a couple of minutes ago, that he feels Slade’s best position is at No 13, that he is ‘world-class’ in that position and he shouldn’t be playing 12.

Two landmark appearances for England today: It’s the hooker Jamie George’s 50th cap:

And the scrum-half Ben Youngs’ 100th:

If you missed it, the All Blacks put 43 points on Australia in Sydney today - the 43-5 victory was a record scoreline as they claimed the Bledisloe Cup:

Eddie Jones on how he took the Barbarians match cancellation: “Look, we just got on with it, mate. I went upstairs and scribbled on a bit of paper and within 30 minutes we were on to ‘Plan B’. These things happen, we don’t want them to happen but they do, and we just get on with it.”

Sir Clive Woodward is upbeat on Italy’s ability - but less so on those words of Franco Smith: “I think Italy will go a lot better than people expect today. But I don’t like Franco Smith saying “We are on a three-year project” ... your mindset has got to be this game. The coach should say: “It’s today or never.” I don’t expect them to win, but I think they can cause England some problems. International sport is not about the future, it’s about the next game, and I think they can give it a real go.”

The Italy head coach, Franco Smith, talks to ITV, starting off with a word about the returning full-back Matteo Minozzi: “He’s full of confidence, he is coming off a very good Premiership, he’s played a lot of rugby compared to some of the other guys, so it’s important for him to bring some of that energy and winning culture ...

“We said we’re at the start of the process, with a lot of new young guys coming in ... they are in a place to learn against the best in the world today. We definitely want to improve, we want to play our brand, we want to show we can play with the ball, the surface is quick and it’s a good evening. I know they would like to play - and so do we. Hopefully our ball retention will be better.”

Ugo Monye asks the question - if England, Ireland and France are all going to throw caution to the wind today and go all-out for bonus-point wins, why don’t we see that every week?

And here is Gerard Meagher: “To demonstrate how much has changed since England last played nearly eight months ago, they will run out at an empty Stadio Olimpico, barring the 400 or so people working at the venue. The players will be obliged to stand at least one metre apart for the socially distanced national anthems, before which they will be given the opportunity to make an anti-racism gesture. The England squad have been given the personal choice as to whether they wish to take a knee or mark the moment in some other way.”

Time for some pre-match reading. Here is Robert Kitson’s preview of what could be a thrilling finish to this season’s Six Nations:

Our host Mark Pougatch asks Jonny Wilkinson about Eddie Jones’ comments during the week in which he compared fly-halves to sushi chefs.

“You have to go on a journey, and it takes a lot of time and effort,” says Wilkinson. “You come to a place of effortlessness that was there at the beginning ... you realise at the end that you had it at the start. You start off grafting, and you end as a ‘genius’ ... to see gaps, to maintain your agility, not to become bogged down by it. You see that in the best ... it’s a filter, that effortlessness, it’s learning to let go.”

That’s getting pretty deep for the first five minutes of the programme, but I think I can see what he’s getting at.

Jonny Wilkinson, Sir Clive Woodward and Lawrence Dallaglio are in the ITV studio to offer their expertise.

“Eddie Jones sometimes baffles people with his selections,” says Dallaglio. “But he knows how he wants to play a game of rugby and his record speaks for itself ... He is successful, it’s got a nice feel about it this side, there are 635 caps out there, and they need that because England haven’t played together for a long time.”

Breaking news: Scotland have beaten Wales, 14-10. That’s five defeats in a row for Wales now.