{"id":456071,"date":"2023-08-23T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456071"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:03:07","slug":"owen-farrell-suspended-for-1st-2-world-cup-matches","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/owen-farrell-suspended-for-1st-2-world-cup-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Farrell suspended for 1st 2 World Cup matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Owen Farrell will be unavailable for his country for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> two clashes at the Rugby World Cup after a commission upheld his red card today, handing the flyhalf a 4-game ban, including Pool D games vs. Argentina and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The England captain was sent off during their 19-17 victory vs. Wales on August 12<sup>th<\/sup> for a high tackle on Taine Basham, but in the past week, he had his red card rescinded by the Six Nations after a hearing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>Owen Farrell has been banned for FOUR games for his tackle on Taine Basham.<\/p>\n<p>He will miss TWO of England&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RWC2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RWC2023<\/a> pool stage matches. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mmIEDHKTGV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mmIEDHKTGV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jared Wright (@jaredwright17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaredwright17\/status\/1694070980761542894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His country&#8217;s 29-10 defeat to Ireland during the weekend served as the 1<sup>st<\/sup> game of his suspension, and Owen will be unavailable for the final warm-up match vs. Fiji in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>The Rugby World Cup begins on September 8<sup>th <\/sup>in France, and England will have to win in the 1<sup>st <\/sup>two fixtures without their captain as their 1<sup>st<\/sup> match is on September 9<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Owen Farrell will be unavailable for his country for the 1st two clashes at the Rugby World Cup after a commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456072,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,20974,20851],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[18341,20975,20852],"acf":{"announce":"The England captain is banned for the first 2 Rugby World Cup games.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456071"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456071"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}