Scotland have no chance of winding England up this time, says Red Rose star Ford

Fly-half Ford was at the centre of last year’s Murrayfield mayhem ahead of England’s 25-13 defeat.

Glasgow’s 6ft 3in No 8 Ryan Wilson shoved England’s smallest player — all 5ft 9in of him — in the back as players trotted off following a pre-match warm-up and it all kicked off.

Scotland had the last laugh with their first Calcutta Cup triumph in a decade.

But England have not forgotten the rumpus — or the home side’s celebrations.

Leicester star Ford, 25, said: “Any team would try anything to get an upper hand or to put the opposition off. So there’s nothing new.

“The more experienced you get, the better you deal with it.

“The one time you don’t prepare for it mentally, that’s the one time it could get you and you’d maybe lose your head in terms of concentration for five or ten minutes.

“That helps nobody. So you accept that it’s happening and get on with your next job.

“Obviously it was a little incident before the game.

“When you get two passionate nations playing an intense Test match with a fair bit riding on it, you’re probably going to get instances like that.

“We’d rather do it when the game has kicked off.

“You can do that tactically, you can be smart, you can do that physically, obviously within the laws. So there are a few ways to do it but when the whistle goes, is when the action counts.”

Ford, who has been touted as a possible target for Super League side Wigan, added: “The main thing for us is to focus on ourselves so that if anything like that does crop up before the game, during the game, whenever, we can always come back to imposing our gameplan.”

England were taken to school at the breakdown in last year’s clash.

But scrum coach Neal Hatley revealed Eddie Jones’ secret behind turning round their form up front.

He said: “Eddie brought in Einstein’s theory of relativity: FMA — force equals mass times acceleration.

“So hit the ball hard, carry hard, pump your legs, fight in the contact, fight on the floor and then be aggressive over the ball.

“Some of it is going back to what’s simple but a lot has gone into it.”

Wales can clinch the Grand Slam by beating Ireland in the second of Saturday’s three matches.

But if Ireland win in Cardiff, England will run out knowing they can still nick the Six Nations title for a third time in four years.

Scotland have won just once in this year’s tournament and lost on their last 14 visits to Twickenham.

But Hatley warned: “We expect them to be abrasive and they will come looking for the biggest performance of the Championship.

“Everybody finds a gear coming to Twickenham.”

Jones has called up Saracens scrum-half Ben Spencer, 26, as cover for back-up No 9 Dan Robson — who is ill.

Marcus Smith, Ollie Thorley, Ben Earl, Jonathan Joseph and Harry Williams have all missed out on the 26-man squad from which Jones will pick his match-day 23 tomorrow.

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