Professionals boxers should not be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics, says David Price, a super-heavyweight bronze medallist in Beijing in 2008.

"It would end Olympic boxing as we know it," said Price, who has held British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles during his time as a professional.
The Merseyside fighter, 32, added that the proposal to introduce professionals in time for Rio 2016 was "far-fetched".
"Qualifying has become so complicated, I don't see how it can work."
Price said amateur boxing had already changed markedly since his days, with lines blurring between the amateur and professional ranks in competitions such as World Series Boxing and the Aiba Pro, and the traditional amateur ranks, now known as 'Olympic-style'.
And he urged caution over the integration of fully licensed professionals into the Games.
"If they're going to bring it in, it would have to be over a period of time, not rush it in for this year," he said.
Dr Ching-Kuo Wu, president of world boxing's governing body AIBA, said on Wednesday that he wanted to abolish rules stopping any fighter with 15 or more paid bouts from competing.
His proposal needs to be approved by the AIBA's executive committee, but Wu said: "We want something to change... not after four years, but now."
Carl Frampton, super-bantamweight, IBF world champion: "The amateurs at the moment are pretty much professionals. The established governing bodies are entitled to say: 'If you guys are fighting as pros, why can't our pro boxers enter the Olympics?' They have a justified point."
Charlie Edwards, flyweight, English champion: "I think it's a bit of a joke. The likes of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao aren't going to fight for peanuts."
Josh Taylor, light-welterweight, 2014 Commonwealth Games champion: "You've got people who have been in the GB squad for years, and their focus is to get to the Olympics. So it would be so unfair to choose a professional fighter over one of them. It's a stupid idea."
Scott Fitzgerald, welterweight, 2014 Commonwealth Games champion: "It could spell the end of amateur boxing. If this goes through, why would anyone stay amateur?"


Malaysia has passed a controversial anti-terrorism bill, which the government says is needed to tackle the threat from Islamic extremists.

The bill reintroduces indefinite detention without trial - something the prime minister had repealed in 2012.
Human Rights Watch called the move "a giant step backwards for human rights".
It was passed hours after the police announced the detention of 17 suspected militants believed to be planning attacks in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Home Minister Zahid Hamidi said those arrested, the youngest just 14, were planning to attack police stations and army bases to gather weapons.
Two of the suspects had just returned from Syria, police said.
Debate on the anti-terrorism bill went late into Monday night in parliament.
Under the legislation, suspects can be held without trial for up to two years, with multiple extensions allowed after that. Decisions on their detention will be made by a terrorism board, rather than the judiciary.
It also allows the authorities to revoke travel documents, both Malaysian and foreign, of people travelling to or from Malaysia to support or engage in terrorism.
The bill still needs approval from the Senate, but the chamber is dominated by the ruling coalition and it is expected to pass.
Malaysia scrapped its Internal Security Act - which permitted indefinite detention without trial - in April 2012 amid public concern it was using the legislation to stifle political debate and lock up critics.
But it replaced the colonial-era law with powers that permitted 28-day detention.
Opposition lawmaker N Surendran, quoted by AFP news agency, said the new anti-terror law was "open to abuse and is a grievous blow to democracy".
Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said that by "restoring indefinite detention without trial, Malaysia has re-opened Pandora's Box for politically motivated, abusive state actions".
Malaysia - a Muslim-majority nation - says it is concerned about the effect on domestic security of those who have fought with or support Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq.
In January, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said 67 Malaysians were known to have gone to Syria and Iraq, including five who had been killed. One hundred and twenty people suspected of links to the Islamic State militant groups were being held in Malaysia, he said.
But the government has also been clamping down on critics in recent months.
Journalists, activists and opposition figures have all been targeted by the equally controversial sedition law, which regulates speech deemed to incite unrest or religious and social tensions.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, meanwhile, remains in prison after being convicted of sodomy - an act which is illegal in Malaysia but for which few are ever prosecuted.
He says the case against him is aimed at keeping him out of politics.


Stephen Colbert will succeed Late Show host David Letterman upon his retirement next year, CBS has said.

Colbert, 49, is host of Comedy Central's acclaimed late-night satire programme The Colbert Report.
Letterman, 66, said last week he was retiring after 21 years hosting the CBS show and 11 years on NBC's Late Night.
On his show, Colbert plays a satirical version of himself to mock right-wing pundits. He has suggested he will retire the character for the new show.
"Stephen Colbert is one of the most inventive and respected forces on television," CBS president Leslie Moonves wrote in a statement following the announcement.
"David Letterman's legacy and accomplishments are an incredible source of pride for all of us here, and today's announcement speaks to our commitment of upholding what he established for CBS in late night."
On his popular and influential Emmy-winning Comedy Central programme, Colbert's biting brand of satire has drawn critical acclaim as well as provoking ire, often from the Republicans and conservatives he skewers.
Recently he was attacked on social media for a joke some viewed as disparaging toward Asian Americans but which he meant as a satirical jab at the owner of the Washington Redskins American football team.
Of his hiring to the Late Show top spot, Colbert said, "simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career."
"I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead."


The government's pledge to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK by 2020 will cost more than half a billion pounds, it has been revealed.

Syrian refugee minister Richard Harrington estimated the figure would be £589m.
Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz said the cost was "huge".
The UK has already accepted more than 1,000 Syrian refugees, as part of the government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme.
The figures came to light in a written response to a parliamentary question from Labour's Coventry MP Jim Cunningham.
Mr Harrington's reply confirmed that the first year of the VPR scheme will be paid for through the UK's overseas aid budget, and that the government had already allocated £129m to help local authorities with costs for the remaining years.
But it is unclear where the remainder of the money will come from.
Mr Harrington said the scheme would cost:
But Mr Vaz said he had written to the prime minister for clarification.
"This is a huge figure," he added.
"As the Home Office refuses to provide regular updates on the numbers being resettled, or where they are being placed, there is an unacceptable lack of transparency in the use of these significant funds."
So far 1,194 Syrians have been resettled in the UK under the scheme, including 605 under-18s, according to government figures.
Local authorities can volunteer to take part in the VPR scheme and as of the beginning of December, 55 had signed up.
The government has previously signalled that the refugees getting resettled in the UK will be taken from established refugee camps.
Syria has been embroiled in a bloody armed conflict for nearly five years. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed, and 11 million displaced from their homes - more than four million have already left the country.
Earlier in the year, the prime minister was criticised by a group of 27 charities - including Oxfam and Amnesty International - which said the UK should take a "proportionate" share of refugees.
The charities praised the commitment to resettle 20,000 Syrians over five years, but said more needed to be done.


A man's death in the Highlands 20 years ago is being looked at again by Police Scotland's specialist crime division.

Kevin McLeod's body was found in Wick harbour in February 1997. His death was treated as accidental, but his family believe he was murdered.
Northern Constabulary, the force that investigated his death at the time, was criticised for its handling of complaints from Mr McLeod's family.
Police Scotland said it was assessing information relating to the case.
A spokesperson said: "Officers from specialist crime division are currently assessing the information relating to the death of Kevin McLeod.
"We continue to engage with the McLeod family and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross MSP, Gail Ross, has asked Police Scotland whether the assessment is to rule out or confirm crime was involved.
The new development in the case follows discussions between the McLeod family and Police Scotland's chief constable Phil Gormley.
Twenty-four-year-old Mr McLeod's family have consistently criticised police for not investigating his death as a murder.
In 2007, the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland said Northern Constabulary behaved with "institutional arrogance" in the way it handled complaints from Mr McLeod's parents, Hugh and June McLeod.
It ordered the then chief constable, Ian Latimer, to apologise in person to his relatives, which the senior officer did.


We Will Rock You, the hit musical based on the songs of Queen, is to close in the West End after a 12-year run.

The show, which is the longest-running production in the history of the Dominion Theatre, will have its final curtain call on 31 May 2014.
Written by Ben Elton, it currently stars Kevin Kennedy, best known as Coronation Street's Curly Watts.
On hearing of the closure, he tweeted: "Just when you get all the words right and in the proper places."
The show is based around Queen hits such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga and Another One Bites The Dust.
Critics were never kind to the Â£6m production, in particular its story - set in a dystopian future where music is banned.
When it opened in 2002, the Guardian said the plot "really is as sixth form as it sounds", while the Mirror declared that "Ben Elton should be shot".
Even Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor, had his doubts, telling Mojo Magazine the script was "slightly crass", although "it does have its good points".
"I do have an aversion to musical theatre, so it hasn't been easy," he added, "but I've learned to live with the musical."
Despite the criticisms, the production has been seen by more than 16 million people in 28 countries - and ranks among the top 10 longest-running musicals in West End history.
"We want to thank every one of the many hundreds of incredible musical theatre artists, musicians and crew with whom we've had the privilege of working at the Dominion since 2002," said Taylor, Elton and Queen guitarist Brian May in a statement.
"And, of course, the incredible audiences who have rewarded them with over four-and-a-half thousand standing ovations."
"It has been a privilege to have hosted We Will Rock You for the past 12 years," added David Pearson of the Dominion Theatre.
"To have the show rocking the Dominion and seeing a standing ovation night after night has been quite amazing.
"We wish the show every success for the future, as we now prepare to accelerate our restoration and refurbishment programme ready to welcome an exciting new production in 2015."
The news of the closure comes days after Queen announced a 19-date US tour, with singer Adam Lambert taking the place of the late Freddie Mercury.


The man responsible for the Vatican's finances says he has found millions of Euros "tucked away" off balance sheets.

Cardinal George Pell, who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy, said it meant the Holy See's finances were better than expected.
He made the comments in the Catholic Herald, in an essay outlining his vision for the Vatican.
Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Pell as part of his efforts to reform the Church and make it more transparent.
"It is important to point out that the Vatican is not broke," Cardinal Pell wrote. "Apart from the pension fund (...) the Holy See is paying its way, while possessing substantial assets and investments.
"We have discovered that the situation is much healthier than it seemed, because some hundreds of millions of Euros were tucked away in particular sectional accounts and did not appear on the balance sheet," he added.
There have been a number of scandals at the Vatican Bank, most recently last year when allegations were made the bank had been used by money launderers.
Cardinal Pell did not say any wrongdoing had been found but said Vatican departments long had "an almost free hand" with their finances.
Pope Francis' reforms, he said, were "already past the point where it would be possible to return to the 'bad old days'".
They aimed to make Vatican finances "boringly successful", he added.
At the time of Pope Francis' election, Cardinal Pell - who is Australian - had been vocal in his calls for financial reform.


Derek McInnes insists Aberdeen are better than their recent results, after a 2-0 defeat by Ross County took the leaders' losing streak to four matches.

McInnes' side made a blistering start to the season with eight consecutive league wins but have since faltered.
"We never got too high when we were winning week after week," he told BBC Scotland. "We're not going to get too down as difficult as it is to take.
"We know we're better than what we've shown recently."
After a lacklustre first half, the Dons succumbed to a Brian Graham double in Dingwall, but McInnes - who has seen his team crash to four straight losses for the first time under his stewardship, three in the league - is confident that, with the endeavour his players showed after the interval, the slump in form will soon be arrested.
"You can never question my boys for effort and you can see the willingness to try and make things better," he said.
"We need to try and find better form individually from some players and as a team, but I thought it was harsh on us tonight.
"Ross County's front two caused us problems in the first half; I thought physically they dominated us a wee bit at times. But I thought in the second half we changed the system, we were far better, created chances, kept the back door shut."
Luck, the Dons boss suggested, has not been on Aberdeen's side of late.
"We are a good team," McInnes continued. "Possibly little things were going for us in the early part of the season.
"I think tonight one or two things didn't - we hit the post, had one cleared off the line, the ball falling to defenders rather than attackers. They get a bit of a break for the second goal.
"If we keep working as hard as we did tonight, the players are good enough to find better form; we're all good enough to start finding ways to win again."
Counterpart Jim McIntyre said the victory over the league leaders was the perfect tonic after the derby loss to Highland rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
"I'm delighted with the performance tonight," he said. "We wanted to bounce back after the derby defeat and we did that with a bit of style, I felt.
"We created numerous opportunities against a very good side. They're not sitting top of the league for nothing. There was some great individual performances out there as well as team.
"Our target from the start is top six. That won't change. We know there'll be ups and downs. Tonight is a good night for us, we'll enjoy it."


Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist has come top of a poll to find the best book of 2014.

The thriller was among the 10 winners from November's National Book Awards that went forward to a public vote to be named Specsavers Book of the Year.
Burton, who beat such authors as David Nicholls and Karen Joy Fowler, said she was "indebted forever to the voting public for this incredible honour".
The Miniaturist has also been named Waterstones Book of the Year.
Organisers said her critically acclaimed novel won by a "significant margin ahead of outstanding competition" including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, Us by David Nicholls and Nathan Filer's The Shock of the Fall.
Burton admitted "it is no exaggeration to say this has been a life-transforming year for me, and this award is a very big cherry on the cake".
She said: "There are always stories to write, and people who want to read them, and as the year closes, I find this very heartening news indeed.
"This wonderful acknowledgement will propel me into 2015, and I am deeply thankful to everyone who took the time to vote."
Previous winners of the top award include The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (2013), Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James (2012), Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman (2011) and One Day by David Nicholls (2010).


UK engineering giant Balfour Beatty has returned to profit after two years of losses.

The company behind Crossrail and the transformation of the former Olympic Stadium into West Ham's ground made an Â£8m profit, after a Â£199m loss in 2015.
Balfour said it had allowed its business to become too complex after a series of takeovers.
Chief executive Leo Quinn said the company's leadership, processes and controls had been upgraded.
"The transformation of Balfour Beatty is well under way," he said.
The company said that, by 2014, it had become overly complex following more than a decade of acquisition-led growth.
It added there had been an overall lack of leadership and strategic direction, and that its businesses had a tendency to compete with each other. However, Balfour says its business has now been simplified.
The company is involved in some of the country's highest profile building projects.
As well as Crossrail, which will link west and east London, it is upgrading motorways and working on the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
In the next few years it plans to be part of the country's three biggest infrastructure projects: High Speed 2 (HS2), the new nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point C and Wylfa, and the third runway at Heathrow airport.
Analysts have been encouraged by the company's progress.
"The self-help phase of the turnaround plan has restored the group to reasonable foundations, with the all-important construction division back in profit in the second half," said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"The strategy now calls for the group to rebuild margins towards something close to industry standard - at around 2% it's not an overly ambitious target on the face of it, but something Balfour have failed to achieve for some time," he said.
Balfour said it was upbeat about prospects as the "trading environment in the group's core UK and US markets remains positive".
"In the UK, government policy is helping to drive a strong pipeline of major infrastructure projects in transport and energy.
"In the US, the new administration has made infrastructure one of its key priorities."


Wales Women coach Rowland Phillips says he is trying to bring the same discipline as the men's team to his side even though they are made up of part-time players.

Wales got their Women's Six Nations campaign off to a winning start with a 20-8 victory against Italy in Jesi.
"The girls want to be treated the same, with the same structures and preparation as the men," said Phillips.
Phillips' side host England at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday, 11 February.
The Wales women's coach has previous experience of the Six Nations as a player and an assistant coach with the men's team.
"I was excited to have the opportunity [to take the job in 2016], but I feel even more excited to be part of this and these girls are making my job enjoyable," Phillips told BBC Wales Sport.
"England are the world champions, so I don't think I'll need to put [the players'] feet on the ground. The challenge is huge and the girls will need to be at their best.
"England have always got that quality, the fact they're full-time allows them to spend more time together, but we're fighters, we punch above our weight and if we can get smart as well, we become a strong force."
Phillips' daughter Carys, the Wales captain, is relishing the prospect of playing at the Arms Park, in a bid to repeat the 13-0 win in Swansea in 2015.
"It's home again in Cardiff, a brilliant place to play so hopefully we get a really good crowd behind us and put in a good performance," Phillips continued.
"England have their Sevens players back in [after the Rio Olympics], they're professional and they're going to be a strong and physical team but we're up for the challenge."
Most of the Welsh players will have to fit evening training sessions around their day jobs, although prop Caryl Thomas, who notched her first international try in Italy from "possibly two centimetres", says they will try to generate spirit from that.
She said: "It's an exciting development for women's rugby, [England] having the time to train and everything, but it brings us together as a team when we're all buying into the same thing.
"We turn up for training, you're tired, you pick somebody up and you get more camaraderie from it, a bit of a family feel."
After BBC Radio Wales commentary duties when she was out injured, Thomas is still in no doubt of her priorities.
"I'd rather be out on the pitch," she joked.


Parts of the M25 were closed for most of the day after a collision which left the carriageway strewn with waste food.

Hertfordshire Police were called to reports of a crash involving a lorry and a VW Polo at about 10:30 GMT.
The clockwise carriageway was shut between junctions 20 at Kings Langley and junction 21 at Bricket Wood and did not fully re-open until after 21:00 GMT.
Heavy traffic developed on diversion routes.
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Plymouth Argyle have re-signed Reading midfielder Craig Tanner on a loan deal until January.

The 21-year-old spent last season with the League Two club, scoring six times Argyle reached the play-off final.
Tanner was part of the Reading squad which defeated Derek Adams' side 2-0 in the EFL Cup first round on 9 August.
Tanner, who signed a two-year contract extension with Reading in January 2015, is eligible for Saturday's home fixture against Mansfield Town.
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A 41-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a man who was allegedly assaulted during a scooter rally at a holiday park.

Police were called to reports of a serious assault at around 02:20 GMT on Saturday at the event at Sandford Holiday Park, near Wareham, in Dorset.
The victim, named locally as 36-year-old Dave "Chewie" Coxon, from the Cyder Commando Scooter Club, was found dead.
Jason James, of Torquay, Devon, has been charged with manslaughter.
He will appear at Bournemouth Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The victim has not yet been formally identified, but his next-of-kin have been informed, according to Dorset police.
Shaun O'Connor, of the South Devon Showmen Club, said: "He was a very good friend."
Dave Robson posted on Facebook: "Sympathy RIP Dave."
Detective Inspector Mark Samuel said: "Following a fast-moving and thorough investigation, we have consulted with the Crown Prosecution Service who authorised the charge of manslaughter.
"Family liaison officers have updated the victim's family with this development and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.
"Detectives continue to work on this investigation and I would appeal to any witnesses at Sandford Holiday Park, who are yet to speak with police, to contact us urgently."
The park had been hosting a 40th anniversary rally of the Modrapheniacs Scooter Club.


Rural communities across Africa may soon benefit from improved water supplies thanks to mobile phone technology.

UK researchers have developed data transmitters that fit inside hand pumps and send text messages if the devices break down.
The "smart" hand pumps will be trialled shortly in 70 villages in Kenya.
Details of the new approach have been published in the
          Journal of Hydroinformatics.
Hundreds of millions of people across rural Africa depend on hand pumps for their water supplies. But it is estimated that around one third are broken at any given moment. Often located in remote areas, repairs can sometimes take up to a month.
But one of the big changes in Africa in recent years has been the expansion of mobile phone networks. It is now estimated that more people in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to these networks than have access to improved water supplies.
So researchers at Oxford University have developed the idea of using the availability of mobile networks to signal when hand pumps are no longer working. They have built and tested the idea of implanting a mobile data transmitter into the handle of the pump. Patrick Thomson is a member of the research team and explained how it works.
"It measures the movement of the handle and that is used to estimate the water flow of that hand-pump," he told the BBC.
"It can periodically send information by text message back to a central office which can look at that data and when a pump breaks, very quickly a mechanic can be despatched to go and fix it."
In just over a month, some 70 villages in Kyuso district in Kenya will have the smart hand pumps installed. The trial, which is funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DfID), will see if the new system can cut the time taken to repair pumps. Rob Hope is another member of the Oxford team.
"Twenty-four hours is the key aim. Eighty percent of breakdowns are small, involving rubber rings and seals and a mechanic would be able to fix them on the spot," he explained.
In the course of the Kenyan experiment the researchers hope to get enough data so that small changes in the way the pumps are handled could be used to anticipate a problem before it occurs.
"We think we can get to the point of predicting failure before it happens." said Rob Hope.
"That's exactly the type of thing we hope the trial will deliver."
A number of big challenges remain to be ironed out, including the critical issue of power. The Kenya experiment will use long lasting batteries but the research team hopes to develop more sustainable ways of powering the transmitters.
Another larger trial due to take place in Zambia later this year will look at renewable resources such as kinetic energy from the motion of the handle and solar power.
Another challenge is the threat of theft and vandalism. The researchers acknowledge there is little they can do once the devices are installed but Rob Hope feels the support of the local community will prove an adequate deterrent.
"My sense is that if the hand-pump is of value to community they will maintain it. If we deliver maintenance in 24 hours, they will self-police," he said.
Speedy repairs to hand pumps could have dramatic effects on local communities - broken pumps mean more hours spent gathering the precious resource and people often turn to unsafe sources of drinking water.
And according to Andrew Mitchell, the UK's Secretary of State for International Development, keeping the pumps working means much more than drinking water.
"Water does not just save lives in the short term - it is also a cornerstone for delivering economic growth and helping countries to work their way out of poverty," he said.
"This is why UK aid will give an additional 15 million people access to clean water by 2015 and supporting a number of programmes, like this one, to help the world's poorest countries harness the full potential of their water resources."
The technology has other potential benefits. It will allow scientists to compile a real time database of how much water is being used across the continent. Greater predictability of breakdowns could also help drive down the cost of repairs.


Leicester's unprecedented title triumph "made mugs of all of us", according to Premier League chief Richard Scudamore.

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The 5,000-1 outsiders beat bigger rivals Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea to land their first top-flight title.
"It's probably the biggest sporting story ever and the biggest sporting achievement ever," Scudamore said.
"Nobody saw it coming and even when it was halfway through the season nobody said it could be sustained."
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Scudamore, who negotiated next season's record £5.1bn television rights deal, added in an interview with BBC Sport that "Leicester 2016" would stand as a landmark moment in British sport.
"We don't know what the future holds because we've all become completely hopeless at predicting anything, including the bookmakers and everybody else - because this one nobody saw coming," he said.
"It's made mugs of all of us and that is just the most fantastic feeling.
"If the bookmakers had it as a 5,000-1 event, you would imagine you should achieve these type of things once every 5,000 years. It gives us 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years of being able to say: 'Leicester 2016. Just remember Leicester 2016.'"
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The Foxes were crowned Premier League champions on Monday, when nearest rivals Tottenham drew 2-2 at Chelsea.
It marked the culmination of an incredible run for the East Midlands club, who were only spared relegation last season thanks to a brilliant sequence of results over their final nine games.
"Of course, you can't compare it with other stories," said Scudamore. "You can't compare it with all Sir Alex Ferguson's achievements, you can't compare it with the Sergio Aguero moment, you can't compare it with the Arsenal unbeaten season because they're different things.
"You're comparing apples with pears. But in terms of an overall story, as an overall achievement, it is absolutely the best."
Ferguson won the Premier League 13 times while managing Manchester United, Aguero scored a stoppage-time winner as Manchester City took the title in 2012 while Arsenal were unbeaten in the 2003-04 top-flight season.
"No matter what else happens we've got it to remember, we've got it in the record books," said Scudamore. "Let the statisticians prove that Leicester won the most points, they won the league, they were worthy champions and anybody else can do it."
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Leicester's triumph will mean English football is an even more successful global product, says Sheffield Hallam football finance expert Rob Wilson.
The triumph against the odds is a "great advert" for England's top flight, said Wilson.
He added it "creates huge potential to leverage the Premier League even more".
Leicester are set to make £150m next season from prize money, Champions League participation cash, and increased match-day revenues from ticket and hospitality sales.
The Foxes have spent just £57m on their squad - compared with the £320m Manchester United have spent on player transfers in the past three seasons.
Wilson said the story of Leicester, owned by Thai billionaire businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, would increase the Premier League's popularity in South East Asia.
Scudamore added: "I think this will be very good for us around the world. When you look at other European leagues and who's likely to win those leagues, nothing like this really happens elsewhere. The Premier League is a great British export."
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Manager Claudio Ranieri said the club would "continue to build" next season.
Speaking from Leicester's training ground, where the players were also gathered following a late-night celebration at striker Jamie Vardy's house, the Italian was asked if his side could win the league again next year.
"No. Next season we have to fight for 10th position," said the Italian. "We have to make sure we are safe then we look to something more.
"When I came here the objective was to create a solid foundation and build together," Ranieri told Sky Sports. "This season is out of our project but our foundations are very solid and we want to do our best.
"We don't want to sell anybody. If some player doesn't want to stay with us, I don't want unhappy people. We are looking to add to the team but with the same mentality. Who comes must know we are working hard."
Wilson told BBC Radio 5 live: "In August they had absolutely no superstars in that side. This summer is arguably more challenging as they try to hold on to some of those players and renew some of those contracts to maintain this next year."
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Both Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted their congratulations.
Sir Peter Soulsby, the mayor of Leicester, said there had been suggestions to name streets after Ranieri and to build a statue in his honour, but added: "I don't know what it will be. I do know we've got quite a lot of partying ahead of us as a city to the end of the season. And then a big celebration.
"We've had media attention across the world already and now that we are champions, I think I'm expecting a little more."
Cleaners took to the streets of Leicester at 06:00 BST to sweep up after the revelry, after thousands of people spilled out on to the streets in celebration.
There was even a crowd of people celebrating outside Vardy's house.
The celebrations continued on Tuesday, with fans gathering to catch sight of the players as they were treated to a meal by the club's owner - who had earlier flown in by helicopter to congratulate them.
About 60 to 70 players and staff enjoyed a two-and-a-half-hour lunch at San Carlo pizzeria in the city centre.
On the way to the restaurant the team bus even stopped to pick up a Jamie Vardy lookalike, who was celebrating the title win outside the King Power Stadium.
Postal worker Lee Chapman, 29, told BBC Radio 5 live: "The bus pulled up and they were all banging on the windows and I got dragged on!
"Jamie Vardy said 'you're not as good looking as me'. It's absolutely bonkers."


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As the United States approached a budget crisis that will shut down many federal services and affect more than 700,000 workers, other countries looked on with a mixture of puzzlement and dread.

For most of the world, a government shutdown is very bad news - the result of revolution, invasion or disaster. Even in the middle of its ongoing civil war, the Syrian government has continued to pay its bills and workers' wages.
That leaders of one of the most powerful nations on earth willingly provoked a crisis that suspends public services and decreases economic growth is astonishing to many.
American policymakers "are facing the unthinkable prospect of shutting down the government as they squabble over the inconsequential accomplishment of a 10-week funding extension", Mexico's The News wrote in an editorial.
In the United States, however, government shutdowns - or the threat thereof - have become an accepted negotiating tactic, thanks to the quirks of the American federal system, which allows different branches of government to be controlled by different parties. It was a structure devised by the nation's founders to encourage compromise and deliberation, but lately has had just the opposite effect.
Elsewhere in the world, such shutdowns are practically impossible. The parliamentary system used by most European democracies ensures that the executive and legislature are controlled by the same party or coalition. Conceivably, a parliament could refuse to pass a budget proposed by the prime minister, but such an action would likely trigger a failure of the government and a new election - witness the current situation in the Netherlands, where Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government faced a no-confidence vote at the start of debate over his 2014 budget proposal. And even when there is a gap prior to a new government taking office, national services continue to operate.
In non-parliamentary democracies, such as Brazil, a strong executive branch has the ability to keep the lights on during a budget impasse. Such was the case in the United States as well, until a 1980 Carter administration interpretation of the 1884 Anti-Deficiency Act strictly limited the powers of federal agencies in the absence of congressional funding authorisations.
Now, as the latest shutdown crisis plays out, policymakers in other nations are left to ponder the worldwide impact of the impasse.
"Globalisation â€¦ means every country is in it together," writes David Blanchflower in the Independent in the UK. "Americans sneeze and Brits catch the flu."
"Canadians can only pray their economy won't be collateral damage," writes John Ibbitson in Canada's Globe and Mail. "Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it."
And this could be another reason why the United States has shutdown crises and other countries don't - because the United States can afford to. At least up until now, the American economy has been able to continue to grind along despite shutdown disruptions that would stagger other nations.
"Constant-shutdown, permanent-emergency governance is so destructive that no other serious country engages in or could tolerate it," James Fallows writes in the Atlantic. "The United States can afford it only because we are - still - so rich, with so much margin for waste and error."


Gareth O'Brien scored 22 points to help Salford beat Huddersfield for their first Super League win of the season.

The Giants took the lead when Jermaine McGillvary touched down but the visitors fought back through Junior Sa'u's try and six points from O'Brien.
Alex Mellor went over twice for the Giants but O'Brien scored twice himself to keep the visitors in control.
Ukuma Ta'ai slid over for Huddersfield before Josh Jones powered over to secure the win for Salford.
Jones' try was perhaps the most impressive of the night, the former St Helens man getting over the line despite the efforts of six Huddersfield defenders.
Huddersfield will be disappointed not to have added to their opening-day win over Widnes but they came up against a Salford defence in fine form.
The visitors lost 26-16 at home to Wigan in their first game of the season but kept the Warriors out for the whole of the second half and built on that at the John Smith's Stadium.
Chairman Marwan Koukash confirmed to the BBC after the match that half-back Todd Carney, who was granted a visa on Thursday, should be in the country on Sunday.
Huddersfield: Gaskell, McGillvary, Cudjoe, Mellor, Murphy, Brough, Brierley, Ikahihifo, Hinchcliffe, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Ferguson, Rapira.
Replacements: Wakeman, Leeming, Roberts, Clough.
Salford: O'Brien, Johnson, Welham, Sa'u, J. Carney, Lui, Dobson, Kopczak, Tomkins, Mossop, Jones, Griffin, Flanagan.
Replacements: Krasniqi, Tasi, A. Walne, Wood.
Referee: James Child.


Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has been taken back to the island of Utoeya for a police reconstruction of the killing of his 69 victims there.

Mr Breivik, wearing a bulletproof vest and tethered on a rope, was seen pointing to where he had fired shots. Police later said he showed no remorse.
Mr Breivik's attacks on 22 July also killed eight people in an Oslo bombing.
The 32-year-old far-right extremist admits the killings but denies any criminal guilt.
Norwegian prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said Mr Breivik described the killings in detail during his eight hours on the island with police.
"Regarding the suspect's explanations, he has been interrogated for almost 50 hours prior to this and he has remained calm, detailed and co-operative, which he also was at Utoeya," he said.
"Our assumptions that his presence at Utoeya would jog his memory was correct. Many new details emerged from his explanations."
Mr Hjort Kraby said some of the victims had drowned while trying to swim to safety.
"We feel we have a fairly good overview of how everyone died or was shot now, even though there are still details to fill in."
He continued: "The suspect showed he wasn't emotionally unaffected by being back at Utoeya... but didn't show any remorse."
Police filmed the reconstruction to use in evidence, Mr Hjort Kraby said.
The Verdens Gang newspaper published photographs of the reconstruction, saying Mr Breivik was taken to Utoeya at about 1400 local time (noon GMT) on Saturday, with police helicopters flying overhead.
He reportedly went on the same ferry that he took before carrying out the massacre.
Some of the Verdens Gang pictures showed Mr Breivik standing in a firing position, as if aiming a gun towards the water.
Mr Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, says Mr Breivik believes the massacre was necessary to save Norway and Europe from Muslim immigration. The lawyer has said his client is probably insane.
The attack on Utoeya targeted a summer camp of the youth wing of the governing Labour Party. Most of the victims were teenagers or in their 20s. The Oslo bomb was set off near government buildings.
Mr Breivik has been charged under the criminal law for acts of terrorism. The charges include the destabilisation of vital functions of society, including government, and causing serious fear in the population.
At a court appearance on 25 July, Mr Breivik admitted carrying out the attacks but did not plead guilty to the charges.
He was remanded in custody for eight weeks, with the first four to be in solitary confinement.
There was suspicion at first that he may have had accomplices but prosecutors and police later said they believe he acted alone.
The attacks traumatised Norway, one of the most politically stable and tolerant countries in Europe.
The government has set up an independent "July 22 Commission" to examine the attacks, including investigating whether police reacted too slowly to the shootings at Utoeya.
On Friday, Mr Lippestad said his client had called police 10 times during the shootings to try to turn himself in, but that eight were not answered. The police have not commented.
On Saturday, campaigning began for next month's local elections, with acts of solidarity among rival parties.
Politicians stood side by side and avoided any partisan comments.


Manchester United are close to signing Serbia midfielder Nemanja Matic from Chelsea for £40m.

Matic, 28, would be United's third summer buy, following £31m defender Victor Lindelof from Benfica and £75m striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton.
Speaking after Sunday's 3-0 pre-season win over Valerenga, United manager Jose Mourinho said: "We are waiting for news. He wants it very much.
"I think we have a chance. Number 31 is a free number."
It will be the second time Mourinho has bought Matic, having signed him for Chelsea.
Mourinho spent £21m in January 2014 to buy the player from Benfica for a second spell at Stamford Bridge.
Matic had been valued at less than £5m in January 2011 when he left Chelsea as a makeweight in the deal for defender David Luiz.
The midfielder scored once in 35 Premier League appearances during Chelsea's title-winning 2016-17 season, but also struck spectacularly in their FA Cup semi-final victory over Tottenham in April.
His exit had been expected after the Blues signed France international Tiemoue Bakayoko, 22, from French champions Monaco in a reported £40m deal earlier this month.
Italian champions Juventus were also understood to be keen on Matic.
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Matic rejoined Chelsea midway through the 2013-14 season, when they finished third in the Premier League behind Manchester City and Liverpool.
The following season, he was named in the PFA's Premier League team of the year, along with five other Chelsea players.
According to Opta, he averaged nearly four tackles, made more than two interceptions and won eight duels - a 50-50 contest - per 90 minutes in the 2014-15 campaign.
However, last season Matic won only 278 duels at an average of 4.77.
While Chelsea team-mate N'Golo Kante made an average of 3.64 tackles per 90 minutes - the fourth-highest in the Premier League behind Liverpool's Jordan Henderson, Leicester's Wilfred Ndidi and Idrissa Gueye of Everton - Matic managed only 1.7.
United continued their preparation for the upcoming season with a comfortable win over Valerenga in Norway.
Goals either side of half-time from Fellaini and Lukaku put the visitors in control and there was enough time for 20-year-old Scott McTominay to add a third midway through the second period.
After the game, Mourinho addressed reports suggesting Belgium international Fellaini could be on his way to Turkey.
"Galatasaray have more chance of getting me than Fellaini," he said. "He's too important."
BBC Sport's Simon Stone
Jose Mourinho knew long before he was officially installed as Manchester United manager that the rebuilding work required at Old Trafford was extensive.
In his view, the squad had got progressively worse.
When I spoke to him for BBC Sport in Washington last week, Mourinho said he wanted his legacy as United manager to be "leaving a squad in a much, much, much better state than the one I was left".
The immediate work included the world record £89m signing of Paul Pogba from Juventus.
Too often though, Mourinho had to pick the Frenchman in a much deeper midfield role that was ideal for someone of such attacking intent.
Matic's arrival addresses that problem.
A move for Tottenham's Eric Dier was discussed at Old Trafford. The younger England man is an effective player and a United fan. But Spurs have made it their priority this summer to keep their best players.
Matic's position at Chelsea has been weakened by Tiemoue Bakayoko's arrival at Stamford Bridge from Monaco and he wanted a fresh challenge.
Mourinho has signed him once before, and the pair get on. They were keen to work together again, although it was anticipated a deal would have been done before now after Matic was left out of the Chelsea squad for their pre-season tour of the Far East.
It is an obvious move that works for all parties even if the fee, like many in this mad summer, is steep.
To measure the value of it, Matic's performances alone should not be considered.
For, if the Serb's arrival gets the best from Pogba, Mourinho will regard the fee as pretty good value.


A tweet posted shortly after Apple’s recent Macbook launch event underlined the absurdity: Apple now sells 17 different types of dongle.

In its ever-escalating war against connectivity ports, Apple’s latest computers do away with the SD card port, a full-size USB port, and the HDMI port.
Instead, you’ll need a dongle to convert those “legacy” connectors, as Apple put it on Friday, into the new, smaller USB-C port.
"We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition,” the company said in a statement, without acknowledging that Apple’s newest iPhone, released just last month, is one such “legacy” device - without a dongle (or a different cable, sold separately), you can’t connect Apple’s new smartphone to Apple’s new laptop.
“We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem."
That help will be a decent discount on the price of the dongles - it calls them adapters - until the end of this year.
The most popular one is likely to be the USB to USB-C adapter - which will be $9, down from $19. For connecting iPhones (both new and old), you’ll need a $19 Lightning to USB dongle - although you could use an old Lightning to USB cable if you bought the USB to USB-C adapter. Keeping up?
Dongle spaghetti
It’s an acknowledgement that Apple’s pro users aren’t exactly thrilled with the latest offering from the company considered to offer the gold standard in laptops.
The bigger issue here, and one that was expertly discussed in a Medium post by technology journalist Owen Williams, is what many see as a muddle at the heart of Apple’s newest products.
For a company that rightly prides itself on creating products that “just work”, it’s literally descended into something of a tangled mess.
Apple has, Mr Williams argued, created computers that lack a core selling point. For pro users, the types that use their Macs for graphic design and video editing, the new range only serves to take away functionality existing Macbooks provide.
If you’re not a pro user, that’s fine. But along with Apple’s announcement of new hardware came the news that the prices were going up. Dramatically so, if you’re living in Brexit Britain. (Though Apple certainly isn’t alone there. Marmite, anyone?)
Those factors combined mean the dongle issue, one Apple might have got away with in the past, has caused added frustration to the faithful who had been waiting for a serious Macbook upgrade for some time.
Dongles get lost, forgotten and broken. They’re an added source of vulnerability when it comes to things accidentally being pulled out when uploading some data, corrupting the lot.
The Macbook future, at least for a short while, is a rag-tag spaghetti junction of dongles strewn across a desk or stuffed into a bag. In offices around the world, inboxes will fill with passive aggressive requests for “whoever took my iPhone dongle” to “please put it back where you found it, no questions asked”.
And when something doesn’t work, you’ll now need to ascertain: is it the device that’s broken? Or the cable? Or the port? Or the dongle?
But hold up. Apple has form here, and history mostly proves them right. Where Apple goes, others normally follow.
Earlier Macbook models already did away with ethernet ports and the CD/DVD drive - a move which seemed absurd at the time, but I’d argue Apple was ultimately exonerated. When was the last time you put a CD into your computer?
So in time, the accessories we use every day will become USB-C as standard, no question about that, and the dongles will no longer be needed.
But in the short term, Apple is left with a product that that no longer caters to either end of the market. Data suggests schools, parents and bosses are looking to Google’s cheaper Chromebooks, which this year began outselling MacBooks.
And if we’re looking at MacBooks as being as part of the bigger Apple planet, we’re left with a company that appears to be behind in many areas. Its iPhone is still king, but sales have been in decline.
Apple doesn’t have any virtual reality hardware. It doesn’t have any augmented reality hardware. Or a car - autonomous, electric or otherwise. In artificial intelligence, Apple's Siri is considered to be the least smart of the mainstream smart assistants, and unlike Google and Amazon, it can’t yet be found in a family-friendly home device.
Tim Cook appears to be throwing money at the problem(s). Spending on research and development has ballooned in the past three years, though Mr Cook is staying typically mum about what exactly the company is working on - only to tell worried investors that his company has the "strongest pipeline that we've ever had and we're really confident about the things in it”.
Only an idiot would write off Apple and its future. I don’t intend to be that idiot. Apple wasn’t the first to market with the smartphone, not even close, but it went on to define the industry and produce the most profitable piece of technology ever made. It could do that again and again in these new areas.
As the world’s richest company, it has time and resources on its side. But with that in mind, couldn’t it afford to pop a dongle or two in the box to make its present-day customers a little happier?
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A new report on genetically modified (GM) crops, commissioned by the prime minister, calls for more UK field trials and fewer EU restrictions.

The Council for Science and Technology (CST) wants "public good" GM varieties to be grown and tested in the UK.
It says GM crops should be assessed individually - like pharmaceuticals - taking potential benefits into account.
A new UK regulator similar to NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) should be set up, it says.
The UK is a world leader in plant biotechnology research, but GM field trial applications have fallen from 37 in 1995 to just one in 2012.
By David ShukmanScience editor, BBC News
The controversy over genetically modifying plants is riddled with contradictions.
Take the European Union. Its internal politics have caused a logjam in approvals but the EU science budget is also funding some of Britain's research.
Europe grows very few GM plants but most of its imported animal feed is genetically modified.
It was America's agricultural giants whose hard sell of GM put off so many European consumers but it is also US science that provides the evidence, gathered over the past two decades, that supports the assurance that GM plants and food are safe.
And while Britain's leading plant scientists appeal to the prime minister to help foster this new technology, its leading supermarket chains avoid stocking GM products because no-one is asking for them.
So can anything shift? The key is whether ministers can change minds in Brussels - and that's no easy task given the hostility towards GM in big players like France and Germany.
A long haul lies ahead.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has spoken in favour of increasing UK research into GM, which he said offers the "most wonderful opportunities to improve human health."
The CST was asked by Prime Minister David Cameron for the latest evidence on the risks and benefits of GM technologies in agriculture, and for advice on UK and EU regulation.
In turn, it commissioned a group of leading plant scientists from Rothamsted Research, The Sainsbury Laboratory and Cambridge University to make recommendations to the prime minister.
The scientists say they are being held back by strict EU regulations - based on the principle that GM crops are inherently more dangerous than conventionally-bred varieties.
Only two GM varieties have been licensed for commercial harvest in Europe - despite the fact that 12% of the world's arable land is cultivating GM crops.
The CST report argues GM crops have now been shown to be safe - and may be necessary in future for Britain to grow its own food supply, rather than depending on imports.
It says the UK should regulate commercial GM varieties of wheat and potatoes based on their individual benefits and risks - rather than follow the EU's blanket approach.
It also recommends a new programme of publicly-funded field trials to test "public good" GM crop varieties, which it calls "PubGM".
"Public good" traits could include nutritional enhancement, such as antioxidants in tomatoes, or vitamin A in "Golden Rice".
They could also include "climate-proofing" properties such as drought resistance or heat resistance.
"With PubGM, seed companies, consumers and regulators will be able to decide, based on results of experiments, whether a GM trait has proved its worth in UK crops under UK conditions," said Professor Jonathan Jones from The Sainsbury Laboratory, one of the report's authors.
Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific adviser and CST co-chair, said: "We take it for granted that because our shelves in supermarkets are heaving with food there are no problems in food security. But there are.
"We're part of a global food market. Competition is likely to increase. The world is already malnourished and the population is growing.
"The challenge is to get more yield from the same area. GM is not a magic bullet, but it is one of a range of technologies that we should consider."
The report was welcomed by Dr Julian Little, chair of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), which represents companies including BASF, Monsanto and Syngenta.
"Current EU regulation has moved in the direction of increasing political influence and undermining science.
"Europe risks being left behind and it therefore remains essential that action is taken to address the dysfunctional EU approvals process so that UK farmers may, in the future, be able to realise the potential of great British biotechnology research right here in the UK."
But the environmental group Friends of the Earth say GM will not make food more affordable or sustainable.
"GM crops have been hugely over-hyped. Despite decades of research they have failed to deliver the benefits they have promised - and have been an expensive distraction from real solutions to the challenges we face," said senior food campaigner Vicki Hird.
"Our food production system needs a radical overhaul to ensure everyone has access to healthy, affordable food that doesn't wreck the planet - but putting more power into the hands of multi-nationals is not the answer."
Prof Cathie Martin, of the John Innes Centre, one of the creators of GM purple tomatoes, said changing regulations would help scientists make progress with GM varieties that benefit society.
She told BBC News: "It takes 10 years to get European regulators to approve a new GM trial, and costs in the order of $150m. How can any small company do that?"
"NGOs complain that GM only benefits multinational companies - but that's because they're the only ones who can afford it. We can't afford to trial crops for the public good.
"If this promotes field trials where you can look at something for the public good that would be fantastic."
Dan Crossley, executive director of the Food Ethics Council, said: "This report, like many focussing on GM technology, is framed around the question 'how can science and technology help secure global food supplies'.
"Instead we need to ask people at the sharp end of food insecurity what can be done - by scientists and also by others - to help fix the food system.
"In a resource-constrained world where a billion people go to bed hungry and a billion are obese, we must also tackle the scandal of food waste, as well as the issue of what we eat."


The mother of an Essex man killed in a crash in Crete says she is "relieved" the trial of a lorry driver accused of his death is to go ahead.

Glen Daly, 24, of Chadwell St Mary, near Grays, died when his motorcycle was involved in a collision with a lorry on the Greek island in June 2009.
The lorry driver has been charged with negligent homicide.
Mr Daly's parents Les and Dorothy are due to travel to Heraklion for the start of the trial on Thursday.
The trial has been delayed three times: it was adjourned in 2010, 2011 and again in February this year.
"I have mixed emotions," said 55-year-old Mrs Daly. "I am relieved it's going ahead, but at the same time I'm worried about it.
"All I've ever asked for is the truth."
Mr Daly was on the third day of his holiday with his friend Tony Atkins when he died.
The trial will hear evidence from Mr Atkins, 27, who witnessed the crash.


Vern Cotter's press conferences are an exercise in hope over expectation.

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Rarely do you get anything out of them; no revelations, no bonhomie, no off-the-record steer.
With Scotland's Kiwi head coach, there's a running joke about how much gold he gives, how many news lines. 'Enough, Vern. Enough. You're spoiling us'. The jocularity normally happens once he's left the room, of course. Nobody's that brave - or that stupid.
Scott Johnson was different. Cotter's predecessor, and now director of rugby, was a master at entertaining the media. A 20-point loss to England? The quotes were magic. A 48-point loss to Wales? Johnson was a tour-de-force at the top table. News, insight, some wisecracks, a few killer one-liners - a genius at play.
What matters is not the coach talking a good game but his players progressing.
That's another over-used word in Scottish rugby in recent times - progress. Andy Robinson swore by it. Few of us could see what he, and Johnson in his wake, could see, but that was the chat. The truth is that this progress they spoke about so often hardly existed.
Cotter doesn't say much, but he doesn't have to. On Saturday evening at the Aviva he also went down the progress route but this time you weren't tempted to cast the eyes to the skies in exasperation.
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The big picture tells us that Scotland finished fourth in the Six Nations by scoring 11 tries, their biggest try tally in the history of the tournament.
Some of them were scintillating. In Stuart Hogg, the Scots have the championship's most lethal attacker and one of world rugby's finest full-backs.
We are in an era of the game that is more physically brutal than any other, a time where the search for space on the field is akin to looking for needles in a haystack. Hogg still manages to find it and when he does he has the ability to light up a game.
On Irish television, their panel of experts - including former Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan and former wing and now outstanding analyst, Shane Horgan - picked Hogg at 15 for their team of the tournament [WP Nel and John Hardie also made it]. There won't have been much chat around the 15 spot. Hogg would have won it in a landslide.
Following the 35-25 loss to Ireland, Cotter didn't want to talk about the season as a whole, preferring instead to focus on what he had just seen.
And he was disappointed.
Ireland battered Scotland in the first-half collisions. They neutralised Scotland's previously wrecking-ball scrum by not making mistakes and not giving them any scrums. Hey presto, one of the visitors' chief reasons for believing they could win was taken away.
They hushed John Barclay and Hardie on the flanks with a back-row effort that was thunderous. CJ Stander, Jamie Heaslip and Tommy O'Donnell won their battle hands-down. O'Donnell carried 12 times, Heaslip 17 times and CJ Stander 21 times. The numbers of Scotland's back-row carriers were eight, four and 10.
It was an odd finale to the championship. Thrilling, but peculiar. When Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw put over his penalty at the end of the first half all rugby logic was cast to the winds of south Dublin.
Ireland had dominated to an outrageous degree. They were winning the breakdown, winning the aerial battle, winning the possession game and the territory game, they had conceded three penalties to Scotland's eight, had played a quarter of the action with a one-man advantage and had spent 82% of their time in Scotland's half.
This was a rout - only it wasn't. It was still an eight-point game.
Ireland should have been out of sight but they couldn't quite shake off their resilient visitors. In years gone by, in a contest of this kind, Scotland would have been in a box awaiting burial at the break.
The fact that they were not just alive but sprightly midway through the second half was a testament to their character and at their ability to execute when chances come their way.
Largely, they fed off scraps but they still managed to score 25 points. That's more points than they have scored against Ireland in the Six Nations in 15 years.
It's the most points they have scored in Dublin in 31 years. Does this come as consolation? Not hugely, but it's a measure of what Scotland's attack can do even off limited ball.
When Richie Gray cantered in under the posts in the 56th minute he brought the deficit back to eight from a high of 15. It was a reminder to the Irish that the kind of processions they have enjoyed against the Scots in recent times are not to be taken for granted any more.
Things have definitely changed under Cotter.
The turning point was Alex Dunbar's yellow card, dished out by referee Pascal Gauzere for flipping Johnny Sexton on his side at a ruck. Gauzere was an unimpressive figure throughout the game and that was a call that had Laidlaw smiling disbelievingly as the card was shown.
Dunbar had no need to take Sexton out - the stand-off reacted somewhat theatrically in the aftermath - and he shouldn't have done it. Having shipped 12 points while Barclay was sin-binned in the first half, they conceded another seven while Dunbar was away.
Laidlaw didn't bite on the question later on, but it was only a few short weeks since he was himself dumped on his back at a ruck in Rome under the nose of a touch judge and yet there was no punishment for the perpetrator.
Where's the consistency? The Six Nations has been an utter shambles on the discipline front.
A minute after Dunbar exited, Devin Toner scored under the posts. That was the game right there.
In truth, a 10-point gap flattered Scotland even though they rallied in the second half and had 71% of the ball. There was a power deficit. Maybe the six-day turnaround from the France game had something to do with that. Maybe Jonny Gray's absence was a big part of the reason. Maybe.
The sobering thing, though, is that Ireland were missing men, too. Stander was a colossus for them but when Joe Schmidt's team have all their back-rows fit again Stander might struggle to make the team. They have Peter O'Mahony to call on at six and Sean O'Brien to bring back at seven.
Scotland are making strides, but Ireland simply have more power athletes.
Cotter is reluctant to stress it - for fear that he comes across as content - but this was a heartening Six Nations by Scotland, the best in 10 years, not that there is much competition. Two wins, two defeats by a converted try or less and then Saturday when they gave themselves a chance, despite everything. It's a step-up.
This time last year there was no Nel, no Hardie, no Duncan Taylor on the scene. All three have been terrific. The attacking game is exhilarating at times.
It's a moot point, but Scotland have arguably been the most attractive team to watch in this Six Nations.
To move it up another level they need more back-row forwards of the quality of Stander and Heaslip - warriors who can play. Cotter will surely put his mind to broadening his options now. The search for new blood continues with a summer tour to Japan.
Scotland will go there in decent heart. So much has been done, but so much is left to do.


Chelsea Ladies opened their 2017 Spring Series campaign with an emphatic 6-0 win over newly promoted Yeovil, while Arsenal's season began with a goalless draw at Sunderland.

Yeovil held out until half-time but South Korea's Ji So-Yun netted twice in first-half stoppage time for 2015 double winners Chelsea.
Drew Spence, Erin Cuthbert, Crystal Dunn and Ramona Bachmann made it six.
Meanwhile, part-time Sunderland's draw was their second from two games so far.
The Lady Black Cats held out against in-form Birmingham last Sunday and similarly frustrated the Gunners at the Hetton Centre, as goalkeeper Anke Preuss produced late saves from Arsenal's Danielle van de Donk and Chloe Kelly.
Goals were far easier to come by for Emma Hayes' Chelsea, who had 23 shots on target and a further 23 off target against a Yeovil side who won promotion with the second-tier title last season.
Hayes saw second-half goals from three of her pre-season signings, as 18-year-old Scotland midfielder Cuthbert, United States winger Dunn and Switzerland star Bachmann all opened their Women's Super League One accounts.
Chelsea are bidding for league success in the Spring Series after disappointment in the Women's FA Cup, where they were knocked out in the semi-finals on penalties by Birmingham.
Last year's WSL 1 champions, Manchester City, are yet to start their Spring Series season owing to fixture clashes with their maiden Women's Champions League campaign, which ended on Saturday despite a 1-0 win in Lyon in the second leg of their last-four tie.
Having played two games already, Liverpool are the early WSL 1 leaders after beating Reading on Friday to make it two wins from two.


You are unlikely to find The Lancet, Thorax or the Journal of the American Medical Association in your doctor's waiting room, but their contents have more impact on your health than the usual lifestyle magazines.

Such journals, where papers are reviewed by other scientists in the same field - are where researchers set out their findings about how diseases occur, which drugs save lives or what surgical procedure is best.
The first scientific journal - Philosophical Transactions - was published 350 years ago this month. It is still produced now - along with thousands of others.
Here are five of the many papers that have transformed medical practice - and people's lives - over the centuries.
In the 18th Century smallpox was a major killer.
The idea of inoculating people to protect them from developing the disease was brought to Britain in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople in Turkey.
When a smallpox epidemic threatened Britain she asked her doctor to inoculate her daughter. Royal physicians took up the idea, and doctors around the country followed suit.
But the treatment was controversial - people thought it was going to give them the disease.
Sir James Jurin, editor of Philosophical Transactions, collected reports from around the UK.
His research, published in the journal in 1723, found people were much more likely to die from smallpox than from inoculation.
The findings were also published in pamphlets, and were important in persuading the public of the value of inoculation.
Patients who went into hospital up until the late 19th Century only had a 50/50 chance of coming out alive.
Surgeons didn't wash their hands between patients and believed illnesses were passed on through the air.
Joseph Lister knew carbolic acid was used to disinfect sewage. In 1867, he published a paper in the British Medical Journal in which he explained how he had used carbolic acid to treat patients with serious bone fractures.
The acid, he wrote, "appears to exercise a peculiarly destructive influence upon low forms of life".
Lister described washing wounds with the acid to destroy "septic germs". He then wrapped the wound in an antiseptic paste, made of carbonate of lime, carbolic acid and linseed oil, and the bone healed without infection.
But his research was not immediately accepted in his home country. Colleagues did not believe that bacteria existed because they could not see them, and his theory was first accepted in Europe and the US.
In the late 1940s doctors noted a big rise in the number of deaths from lung cancer in the UK, Australia, Canada, US, Turkey and Japan since the end of World War One.
There were two potential culprits that had changed over the 20th Century - industrial pollution and smoking.
Richard Doll was the British statistician working for the Medical Research Council who published a ground-breaking paper in the British Medical Journal in 1950 that concluded there was "a real association between carcinoma of the lung and smoking".
He looked at the incidence of smoking and lung cancer in a large number of patients and compared their experience with people who had different cancers - what scientists call a control group.
His findings led him to give up smoking.
But despite many subsequent studies that have supported the connection, the tobacco industry has not accepted the research.
Ulcers had been thought to be down to stress, personality, smoking, or genetics, and the only treatment was drugs to neutralise the acid.
But during the 1980s, two Australian researchers, Robin Warren and Barry Marshall, started to investigate another cause.
By the middle of 1982 they identified a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) as the culprit, but peers thought living things could not survive the acidic conditions of the stomach.
Later - when they won a Nobel prize - Barry Marshall said: "No amount of logical reasoning could budge what people knew in their hearts to be true. Ulcers were caused by stress, bad diet, smoking, alcohol and susceptible genes. A bacterial cause was preposterous."
In frustration he decided to experiment on himself. He drank a broth containing H.pylori, and as he had expected, became ill.
After 10 days of vomiting and bad breath, he asked a colleague to look inside his stomach with an endoscope where he found the bacteria, as well as other symptoms which would lead to ulcers.
H.pylori had been proved to be the cause of ulcers.  The researchers' paper was published in the Lancet in June 1984.
Warren and Marshall were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2005.
Ulcers are now cured with a short course of antibiotics.
In January 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson was in hospital in Toronto seriously ill with Type 1 diabetes.
The only treatment available was starving the body of sugar, so he was very thin and expected to die.  But he was lucky enough to be in the first recipient of insulin extracted from cows, given by Frederick Banting.
He had an allergic reaction to the first injection but the second, of a purer extract, had dramatic positive effects and he lived for another 13 years.
Doctors had known there was something wrong with the way the pancreas worked in type 1 diabetes that led to a build up of sugar in the blood.
But until the work of Banting and others, they could not find a way of extracting the substance that we now know as insulin.
An account of the work was published in the Canadian Medical Journal just two months after Leonard's first treatment.
Banting, and a colleague John McLeod, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1923.
Millions of lives have since been saved by the discovery of insulin.


The Women's NBA has fined three teams and their players for wearing black warm-up shirts to commemorate the recent shootings in America.

New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever were fined $5,000 (£3,773) while their players each received a $500 (£377) fine.
The teams wore the #BlackLivesMatter shirts following the deaths of two men and five police officers on 7 July.
WNBA rules state that uniforms may not be altered in any way.
"Don't say we have a voice and then fine us because we use it," Phoenix Mercury forward Mistie Bass tweeted.


A dramatic injury-time equaliser from teenage substitute Kyle Wootton gifted Scunthorpe a point against relegation rivals Port Vale.

Richard Duffy fired Vale in front after Neil Collins headed down a corner for the defender to coolly latch onto.
Scunthorpe's Paddy Madden could have levelled later on but fired the ball over the crossbar from close range.
But Wootton's late goal rescued a point and prevented the visitors from taking their first win in eight games.
The Iron remain in 17th, a point above 18th-placed Vale who are three points above the League One relegation zone.
Scunthorpe manager Mark Robins told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"We were by no means at our best tonight but we've created enough chances to win the game.
"We gave them one shot at goal and they scored.
"The changes we made had an impact no doubt about that - I told Kyle (Wooten) to go make a name for himself which he has thankfully gone and done."


The former Rangers Football Club is to be put into liquidation after creditors approved an end to the administration process which began on 14 February.

Administrators Duff and Phelps will now apply to the Court of Session to have BDO appointed as liquidators.
The club, which was formed in 1872, was placed in administration over over non-payment of tax totalling about Â£14m.
HM Revenue and Customs blocked a CVA (creditors agreement) that would have allowed the old club to continue.
Following this, Duff and Phelps oversaw a sale of assets to the Sevco consortium led by Charles Green for Â£5.5m.
Shareholders in the old Rangers subsequently gave their approval for Sevco to change its name to The Rangers Football Club Limited.
The old club, which remained in administration, has since been known as RFC 2012.
The new club, started by Mr Green's consortium, began life in the Scottish Third Division.
Announcing moves to end the administration period, joint administrator Paul Clark said: "Creditors have today given their approval for the administrators to bring the administration process to an end and to place the company into liquidation.
"As a result, we as administrators have instructed our legal team to prepare the necessary application for lodging in the Court of Session as a matter of urgency.
"Should the application be approved, then Malcolm Cohen and James Bernard Stephen of BDO will be appointed liquidators of RFC 2012 plc, and will undertake the process of liquidation of the 'oldco' company and the continued recovery of funds for creditors."
Mr Clark said this would not affect the new Rangers "as it is a completely separate entity".
He added: "As administrators, our primary statutory function was to ensure Rangers continued as a business and this was achieved.
"Secondly, we were tasked to secure a buyer for the club and this too was achieved.
"We are delighted that plans for the revitalisation of Rangers are now continuing with the new owners' intention to float the club on the AIM market."
Mr Clark said the administration process had been "comparatively short" and had been handled by Duff and Phelps to "the highest professional standards".
"We have co-operated fully with inquiries into our appointment by Lord Hodge at the Court of Session and the Insolvency Practitioners' Association," he added.
UPDATE: An appeal to the BBC Trust about the terminology used in this story was partially upheld on 18 June 2013.


A man jailed for the murder of a waiter in Orkney in 1994 has failed in a bid to have his conviction re-examined.

Michael Ross was 15 when he shot Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, in the head in Kirkwall's Mumataz Restaurant.
The former Black Watch sniper was jailed for a minimum of 25 years in 2008 after being convicted of murder.
Ross has been told by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission there is not enough evidence to support a miscarriage of justice claim.
Mr Mahmood was shot in full view of a room full of diners, including families with children, by a masked gunman.


The bodies of band Viola Beach - who died in a car crash in Sweden - have been released to their families.

Tomas Lowe, 27, Kris Leonard, River Reeves, and Jack Dakin, all 20, and their manager Craig Tarry, 33, were killed when their car plunged into a canal on 13 February.
Inquests into their deaths were opened and adjourned earlier in Warrington.
Senior Coroner for Cheshire Nicholas Rheinberg released the five men's bodies so funerals could take place.
The brief hearing at Warrington Town Hall was attended by 11 family members.
Det Sgt Elaine Duddle from Cheshire Police told the inquests the band's car was travelling along the E4 motorway and passed through a restricted area when it collided with barriers.
She said the five men suffered severe injuries and the car then fell into the canal below the bridge, about 18 miles from Stockholm in Sodertalje.
Mr Rheinberg heard that cooperation between UK and Swedish Police had been good since the crash in Stockholm last month.
He praised the work of the Swedish Police and said: "In all my career I have never had such immediate and positive response from a foreign organisation"
Full inquests will be heard at a later date.
Read more about the band


Liverpool Ladies have been knocked out of the Champions League after losing 1-0 at home in their last-32 tie, suffering a 2-0 aggregate defeat.

Barbara Bonansea scored the only goal midway through the first half, eluding two defenders before shooting from close range.
For the hosts, Asisat Oshoala had a goal ruled out for a foul.
The match marked Liverpool manager Matt Beard's final game in charge before moving to Boston Breakers in the USA.
Liverpool dominated long periods without turning pressure into goals.
Ashley Hodson forced two good stops from goalkeeper Camelia Cesar, while Lucy Staniforth saw her two direct free-kicks well saved.
Other than the goal, the Italian side created few clear openings. Chiara Marchitelli and Valentina Cernoia had shots from outside the area, but both were straight at keeper Libby Stout.
Beard said: "I was pleased, we've done everything but score again, we threw the kitchen sink at them in the second half.
"To be fair to Brescia, they defended really well which restricted us.
"And over the course of the two ties, they probably deserve to go through."
Liverpool Ladies: Stout, Harris, Murray, Omarsdottir, Ryland, Staniforth (Williams 70), Zelem, Oshoala, Hodson, White (Dale 79), Dowie (c).
Unused subs: Darbyshire, Beckwith, Schroder, Pacheco, Smorsgard.
Brescia: Marchitelli (Cesar 32), Gama, D'Adda (Boattin 61), Linari, Cernoia (c), Eusebio, Rosucci, Bonansea, Girelli, Sabatino (Alborghetti 76), Tarenzi.
Unused subs: Serturini, Ghisi, Lenzini.
Referee: S Frappin
Attendance: 387


Herders in Lapland are spraying their reindeer with a special paint designed to reflect car headlights.

As many as 4,000 reindeer are involved in accidents with cars every year in Lapland, which is a region of Finland.
The Reindeer Herders Association hopes the reflective spray will help drivers see them during the dark months.
The special spray is being tested on the reindeer's fur and antlers to see if it stays on in different weather conditions.


Documents thought to be the earliest school records in Sussex have been deposited in county archives.

The two parchment books dating from 1727 record the setting up of Burwash Charity School with a legacy of Â£100 from the Rev George Barnsley.
Other subscribers were Thomas and Henry Pelham and local landowners and businessmen.
The books, which have been in the hands of a local historian, are now being held at The Keep in Brighton.
They cover 150 years up to 1877, recording some of the pupils' names, the teachers and the school accounts.
Two of the first three teachers employed in 1727 were unable to write, and when asked to sign receipts for their wages, could only sign with a line or cross.
"They probably weren't trained at all," said senior archivist Christopher Whittick.
"This was a charity school for poor children."
He said the books would be of interest to many different people.
"If you are interested in education that's the most obvious but if you are interested in Burwash, or the families of Burwash, or if your ancestor was one of the children there is something there for you."
The Keep at Falmer, which opened in 2013, holds the historical records of East Sussex Record Office, Brighton Royal Pavilion and Museums and the University of Sussex.


Watford Ladies head coach Keith Boanas and his assistant Alberto Kurti will continue in their roles for the 2017-18 Women's Super League Two season.

Boanas, 58, was appointed in February, shortly after the club secured their future, having earlier failed to fulfil a Women's FA Cup tie at Doncaster.
Watford went on to finish eighth in the 10-team WSL 2 Spring Series table, winning two of their nine matches.
Boanas' side have returned to pre-season prior to the new league season.


Before any new medicine can be given to patients, detailed information about how it works and how safe it is must be collected.

Clinical trials are the key to getting that data - and without volunteers to take part in the trials, there would be no new treatments for serious diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and arthritis.
But one disastrous drug trial at a London hospital in 2006 threatened to derail that system.
In what became known as the Elephant Man trial, six healthy young men were treated for organ failure after experiencing a serious reaction within hours of taking the drug TGN1412 in a clinical trial.
Big rise in medical trial volunteers
After they were all admitted to intensive care, two became critically ill, the worst affected lost his fingers and toes, and all the men were subsequently told they would be likely to develop cancers or auto-immune diseases as a result of their exposure to the drug.
In follow-up interviews, the men described feeling like their brains were "on fire" and their "eyeballs were going to pop out".
Experts queued up to say the outcome of the trial had been unprecedented and exceptional, but could it happen again?
Prof David Webb, professor of therapeutics and clinical pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh and vice president of the British Pharmacological Society, says it is "much less likely to happen again".
He says things have changed for the better since 2006, following a number of recommendations made in the Duff Report, written in response to the trial.
"The MHRA [Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency] now ensures committees look at pre-clinical data, to decide whether the first dose given to humans is the right dose and has rules for stopping if things don't go as expected."
Before a drug is tested on humans, it goes through laboratory and animal testing.  Medicines are also tested for toxicity before being given to people.
Then there are four stages of drug testing in humans.
Phase I - studies, on a small number of healthy volunteers, to understand what effects a new medicine has on human subjects - what happens to the compound in the body from the time it is swallowed or injected until it is excreted. Study participants are monitored for side effects.
Phase II - designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a drug in patients who are at the same stage of a specific disease or condition. They are given various doses of a compound and closely monitored.
Phase III - used to confirm a new drug's safety and efficacy, while working out the best dosage regimen. Studies are carried out in large numbers of patients with a specific disease or condition. Safety and efficacy is compared to the currently accepted standard treatment.
Phase IV - these studies take place after the drug has been approved for marketing. They evaluate the long-term effects of the drug in larger numbers of patients, sub-populations of patients. Less common adverse events may be detected.
MHRA
This is particularly important when trials involve drugs that affect the immune system, he says.
But is it possible to eliminate the risks entirely?
"You can mitigate against the risks, but nothing is 100% certain. We can never be sure," Prof Webb says.
The trial, which was privately run at a research facility at Northwick Park Hospital in north London, involved the first testing of a new drug on humans. This is the initial phase in assessing the safety of a drug before moving onto larger-scales studies in patients themselves.
The report said Parexel, the company managing the trial, had been unclear about a safe dose to start testing on humans and it should have tested the drug on one person at a time.
The MHRA, which regulates clinical trials and medicines in the UK, and which was criticised at the time for giving the green light to the TGN1412 trial, says the conduct on these phase-one trials "has moved on significantly".
"Additional provisions and guidance has been put in place for certain novel products to provide as much assurance on safety as possible," the agency says.
It adds that it has simplified and streamlined the regulation of clinical trials and collaborated with other bodies and experts to collect as much information as possible on risk factors before a trial is authorised.
Phase-one trials, when drugs are tested on humans for the first time, only happen after extensive testing on tissue samples and animals in the lab.
Getting this stage right before moving onto research in humans is crucial.
Dr Catherine Elliott, director of clinical research interests at the Medical Research Council, which funds clinical trials in the UK and globally, says there is a move to refine the models used at the pre-clinical stage.
"Animal models are the mainstay, but we are trying to develop other models too to have more tailored disease models."
She says researchers are making use of brain imaging to understand the mechanisms of illness in humans and using IT to predict the effects of new drugs.
Testing on animals, which has its own controversies, can get scientists so far - but someone always has to be the first person to test a new medicine.
The volunteers for phase-one clinical tests always have to be healthy young men because of the risk to a woman's eggs or foetus.
Prof Webb says we are indebted to the 50 to 100 people in the UK each year who step forward to begin the testing of every new drug.
"There are so many effective medicines for cancer, heart disease et cetera - and they all come from volunteers who have taken part in small, early studies."
He believes that everyone who wants to should be able to register themselves available for clinical research through their GP.
"I would argue that everyone should be a volunteer. We'd get the payback eventually because by the time we're in our 60s and 70s most of us will end up on medicines."
Although volunteers are compensated for their time and inconvenience during the trial, they are not paid for taking part - and Dr Elliott says this is the correct approach.
"There shouldn't be an incentive to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. It shouldn't be related to risk. People have to be able to give free consent."
Despite all this, there appears to have been no reduction in interest in participating in early-stage trials since Northwick Park.
The MHRA says the number of UK clinical trial authorisation applications has been fairly stable at 900-1,000 per year since May 2004.
Prof Webb says he has always found it relatively easy to find volunteers for the "first in man" trials he oversees at his approved research centre in Edinburgh.
The MHRA is in no doubt about the safety of drug trials, seven years on from Northwick Park.
A representative said: "Clinical trials in the UK have an excellent safety record and they play a vital role in the development of new medicines, providing evidence so that clinicians can make informed prescribing decisions.
"Safety problems associated with clinical trials are rare and the risk of a repeat of the incident in 2006 concerning the TGN1412 drug is extremely low."


England Under-21s squandered a two-goal lead as their 11-game winning run was ended with a 3-2 defeat by France.

Gareth Southgate's side led when Harry Kane lifted a clever finish past home keeper Alphonse Areola, then tapped in a second from Tom Ince's cross-shot.
But Arsenal's Yaya Sanogo scored two tap-ins for France to level by half-time and substitute Kingsley Coman struck a winner into the top corner.
Danny Ings headed wide as England suffered a first defeat in over a year.
That previous defeat was a 1-0 loss to Israel at the European Under-21 Championships in 2013, and Southgate now only has two matches to work out his best line-up before taking part in the same competition next June.
He opted to shuffle his pack for this latest test at Stade Francis-Le Ble in Brittany, making five changes from the 3-1 win over Portugal on Thursday.
It would prove costly as France, with Marseille youngster Florian Thauvin influential in midfield, looked as impressive as they had in European Championship qualifying - prior to their surprise play-off defeat by Sweden.
Spurs forward Kane filled in ably for top scorer in qualifying Saido Berahino, elevated to the senior squad, and lifted the opener over the on-rushing French keeper from Ince's smart pass before profiting again within two minutes when Ince swivelled in the box to create a tap-in.
But the lead looked harsh on France and they responded when Sanogo got a faint touch on Antoine Conte's volley.
Tauvin burst through England's defensive line to force a brave block from Middlesbrough's Ben Gibson - who later went off injured - but the equaliser arrived when Sanogo, who is yet to score for Arsenal, converted Paul-Georges Ntep's cut-back.
France sealed a deserved win over Southgate's side when Coman produced a confident side-foot finish into the top corner on 74 minutes.
Burnley's Ings headed wide from a corner late on but England did not threaten meaningfully again.


A man has been arrested after a woman was raped in Glasgow city centre.

The 34-year-old woman was in Cadogan Street when the alleged serious sexual assault took place at about 05:00 on Friday.
Police had urged anyone with information to contact them.
A 20-year-old man was detained in custody and is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court later.


Backpackers and others could now face higher income taxes thanks to changes in work rules in the Australian government's latest budget.

People on working holiday visas would now have to pay tax on every dollar they earnt, said Treasurer Joe Hockey.
The backpacker industry said the Treasurer had exaggerated how much money it could raise from the tax.
However, it warned publicity about the changes could scare away young tourists.
Young travellers from the UK, Europe and increasingly from Asia often get low-paid jobs in Australia's hospitality or farming sectors to fund their holidays.
Foreigners on working holidays currently pay no income tax in Australia until they earn close to A$20,000, the same tax-free threshold enjoyed by residents.
"Anyone on a working holiday in Australia will have to pay tax from their first dollar earned," said Mr Hockey.
"This will save the budget A$540m," he added.
Under the new rules that take affect in July 2016, for tax purposes they will now be considered "non-residents" and pay tax on every dollar they earn.
But Backpacker Operators' Association New South Wales Secretary Robert Henke said people on working holidays only benefitted from the tax-free threshold if they remained in one location for six months.
He said anecdotal information showed most young travellers moved around, and worked in different places.
"It is a bit of a beat-up because what they didn't say is that to be entitled [to the tax-free threshold], you have to be in one spot for six months," Mr Henke told the BBC.
"So, we don't think the tax change will raise as much money as Mr Hockey claims," Mr Henke said.
"However, the unfortunate part of it is that overseas media are already writing articles that might frighten backpackers away," he said.
Others in the tourism industry were also unhappy about the announcement.
"Taxing working holidaymakers from the first dollar they earn, instead of giving them equal treatment with other resident taxpayers, is a backward step and will damage Australia's international reputation," said Tourism and Transport Forum Chief Executive Officer Margy Osmond.
"Australia has long been a favourite destination for young people from around the world who live, work and travel here for up to two years, and who spend on average more than A$13,000 during their stay," she said.


Reigning Commonwealth champion Jodie Stimpson finished in 16th place in the World Triathlon Series event at Australia's Gold Coast.

Stimpson took silver in the opening race in Abu Dhabi last month after a sprint finish with Andrea Hewitt.
But the 28-year-old was unable to get close to Hewitt this time, with the New Zealander winning from Australia's Ashleigh Gentle and Japan's Juri Ide.
Stimpson was the sole Briton competing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games venue.
A top-five finish could potentially have secured a place at the Games for England's 2014 gold medallist.
In the men's race, Spain's reigning World Series champion Mario Mola held off Richard Murray of South Africa, with another Spaniard, Fernando Alarza, third.
Britain's Rio 2016 silver medallist Jonathan Brownlee is expected to race at the next round of the series in Yokohama, Japan on 13 May.
His brother, Alistair, is focusing on longer distance events this season.
The double Olympic champion, 28, will make his debut in that discipline in a 70.3 mile race in Gran Canaria on 22 April.