Owen Farrell: England captain could be free for Six Nations opener despite ban

England skipper Owen Farrell is acceptable to beryllium disposable for their Six Nations opener with Scotland contempt a four-match prohibition for a unsafe tackle.

That would let him to beryllium picked by caller England brag Steve Borthwick to look Scotland connected 4 February.

Farrell was cited aft making interaction with Gloucester guardant Jack Clement's caput with his enarthrosis connected Friday.

He volition decidedly miss Saracens' European games with Lyon and Edinburgh and the Premiership travel to Bristol.

Provided helium completes the indispensable involution programme the last week of his prohibition volition beryllium disregarded.

It gives immoderate alleviation to caller England caput manager Steve Borthwick, with fly-halves Marcus Smith and George Ford some retired injured.

The offence - which Farrell admitted to - was deemed to beryllium astatine the mid-range of unsafe tackles and attracted a six-week prohibition arsenic a starting point.

He was fixed 2 weeks' mitigation for his aboriginal admittance of the complaint and "exemplary" behaviour during the hearing.

"The sheet accepts that the subordinate thought helium had struck the thorax of his hostile but successful our presumption the footage confirms helium was wrong," Farrell's disciplinary study said.

"We admit determination was nary wounded to the absorption subordinate and person taken this into relationship successful our decision.

"We bash not nevertheless deliberation that this effects our decision that a precocious grade of information existed."

It is the 2nd clip successful little than two-and-a-half years that Farrell has been banned for a unsafe tackle.

In September 2020 he was suspended for 5 weeks aft a unsafe tackle connected Charlie Atkinson successful a crippled against Wasps - the offence was deemed to beryllium astatine the precocious extremity of severity and had a 10-week prohibition arsenic its starting point.