{"id":439613,"date":"2026-02-22T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439613\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:48:12","slug":"jamison-gibson-park-pauses-post-match-interview-to-show-true-colours-after-england-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439613\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamison Gibson-Park pauses post-match interview to show true colours after England game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ireland scrum-half was immense on the pitch and made a classy gesture in the immediate aftermath\"Jamison<\/p>\n

Jamison Gibson-Park is interviewed after Ireland beat England(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Ireland star Jamison Gibson-Park showed his class off the field as well as on it as he started his post-match interview by paying tribute to England captain Maro Itoje on the day he won his 100th cap.<\/p>\n

Itoje led his players out to huge roars from the crowd on the milestone occasion but it all went badly wrong as England were destroyed 42-21 in a record home defeat against the Irish.<\/p>\n

Scrum-half Gibson-Park was named player of the match but made sure Itoje had the plaudits he deserved when he began his interview after the game.<\/p>\n

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Asked about Ireland’s performance, he said: “Sorry, can I just start off by saying I want to congratulate Maro on his 100 Tests. It’s a pretty phenomenal feat. He’s a great bloke and a great player. I had the privilege of sharing the summer with him. He’s an unbelievable player, leader and person and I just want to congratulate him firstly.”<\/p>\n

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The gesture came after a remarkable match that saw England blown apart by the Irish.<\/p>\n

A week after their Murrayfield jinx had struck again, Steve Borthwick\u2019s men leaked 22 unanswered points in a dramatic opening half hour with Luke Cowan-Dickie and Freddie Steward hooked before the interval.<\/p>\n

And the misery continued into the second-half as broken England hardly fired a shot in their first defeat at Twickenham since November 2024.<\/p>\n

All of the flaws exposed by Scotland resurfaced with interest in a self-destructive error count, a lack of physicality in all areas but particularly in defence, senior players not performing and an absence of leadership.<\/p>\n

George Ford drawing ironic cheers when he found touch summed up his afternoon and it was a grim way for England captain Maro Itoje to mark his 100th cap on a day when Twickenham sounded more like the Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n

Ireland were outstanding at capitalising on the favourites\u2019 weaknesses as they registered their sixth victory in seven meetings between the rivals, producing an upset to invigorate their Six Nations<\/a> after stumbling through the opening two rounds.<\/p>\n

Gibson-Park ran the show in style with Stuart McCloskey and Caelan Doris among those playing strong supporting roles in a win that has relieved the pressure that was building on head coach Andy Farrell.<\/p>\n

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Robert Baloucoune of Ireland celebrates with teammates Jamie Osborne and Jamison Gibson-Park after scoring(Image: 2026 Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Both teams began the afternoon knowing another defeat would remove them from the title race \u2013 and it was Ireland who rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n

In a sign of their nerves, England began by making a series of basic errors headlined by Ford\u2019s kicking jitters as he failed to find touch with one penalty and then sent a second one dead.<\/p>\n

A loss of concentration then allowed Gibson-Park to dart over from a quick tap penalty after Ireland had broken from deep and they again showed their opportunism by pouncing on yet another English error, this time at a line-out.<\/p>\n

Alex Mitchell limped off and the hosts\u2019 woes continued when McCloskey easily brushed aside Ollie Lawrence and one phase later Robert Baloucoune was over in the right corner.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Freddie Steward was sin-binned for playing Gibson-Park without the ball.<\/p>\n

Ireland looked like world beaters as they stormed over for their third try through a mixture of their ingenuity and the hosts\u2019 crumbling defence with Tommy O\u2019Brien finishing a slick move down the left.<\/p>\n

Stirred on by their desperation, England finished a period of frantic pressure with a Fraser Dingwall try but just seconds after the interval Henry Pollock was sin-binned for not releasing and Dan Sheehan dived over for a simple finish.<\/p>\n

Lawrence strolled over to round off a pleasing attack but successive penalties by Jack Crowley extended Ireland\u2019s lead to 21 points.<\/p>\n

England were completely rudderless and their defence parted for a fifth time with Jamie Osborne rounding off waves of attacks, but although they had the final word when Sam Underhill scored there was no mistaking the beating they had taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ireland scrum-half was immense on the pitch and made a classy gesture in the immediate aftermath Jamison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7166,27009,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-england-rugby-union-team","tag-ireland-rugby-team","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}