We've rounded up the best of social media from the fifth and final round of the 2018 Six Nations
It was an exciting weekend of championship rugby and as ever social media was abuzz, so we’ve trawled through Twitter to bring you the best Six Nations tweets of the week.
Ireland win the Grand Slam
The weekend belonged to Ireland as their 24-15 victory over England at Twickenham won them a famous Grand Slam: only the third in their history.
The match hinged on the minutes just before half-time, when Jacob Stockdale burst onto a flat pass from Conor Murray, chipped Mike Brown and had the speed, balance and poise to touch the ball down for a record seventh try in a single Six Nations tournament. He’s a try machine:
What a day it was for Rory Best, who added the achievement of captaining Ireland to a Grand Slam to leading his country to their first win in South Africa and their first win over New Zealand. Here he is celebrating with his children:
An enduring image of Ireland claiming their third Grand Slam will be of Peter O’Mahony’s post-match generosity, as he gave his medal away to to this Irish super fan Jennifer Malone. Her sister shared these pictures of the moment:
Yes my sister got to lift the six nations trophy today in Twickenham and got Peter O’Mahoney’s medal and yes I am extremelyyyyy jealous pic.twitter.com/NVU3L4suUp
Earlier in the day we had a belting match to open up Super Saturday. Scotland came from a long way back to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat against Italy and inflict a 100th Test defeat on Sergio Parisse.
This fantastic try from Tommaso Allan, created by a bust from the magnificent Jake Polledri, stretched Italy’s lead to 24-12 in the 44th minute:
Try! Brilliant from Italy and it's that man Tommy Allan again – Italy increase their lead over Scotland! pic.twitter.com/gINByaj4eo
There were a lot of positives for Italy, but they failed to capitalise on this position and Scotland ultimately had the composure to claw themselves back into the game and this pressure kick from Greg Laidlaw completed the comeback:
Pressure? What pressure? Laidlaw keeps his cool – is this the winning penalty in Rome? pic.twitter.com/fo7lMWxotu