{"id":1139005,"date":"2026-08-09T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1139005\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:02:14","slug":"nick-was-a-great-guy-who-wanted-england-to-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1139005\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick was a great guy who wanted England to go well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIR CLIVE WOODWARD <\/p>\n<p>NICK Eastwood was a seriously nice guy and person to be with. Obviously, I was very sad to hear this news. The big thing to me was outside his skills on the finance side, he was genuinely passionate about the rugby \u2013 he really wanted the England team to go well.<br \/>People often say to me I was hard to manage, but I don\u2019t think I was, mainly because I had him to work with in terms of the budgets.<br \/>He knew my background was also in finance, and that I know how to read a spreadsheet, and there was many a time I said to him why are we spending all this mone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIR CLIVE WOODWARD NICK Eastwood was a seriously nice guy and person to be with. Obviously, I was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1139006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,11653,92591,4151,16,15],"class_list":["post-1139005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-premium","tag-rfu","tag-rugby","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117063565128726093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}