{"id":18115,"date":"2025-04-14T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18115\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:36:14","slug":"frances-big-two-collide-in-battle-of-the-heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18115\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s big two collide in battle of the heavyweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Rees<\/p>\n<p>Toulon v Toulouse<\/p>\n<p>Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stade Felix Mayol<br \/>The weather in Toulon is normally mild, but the Stade Mayol will reverberate this afternoon to the sound of thunder as two of the tournament\u2019s heavyweights collide.<br \/>Toulon and Toulouse have between them won the Champions Cup five times in the last 12 years and the winners today will be fancied to make it six.<br \/>It is an all-French affair, but there is English interest with Lewis Ludlam and Jack Willis facing off in the back row and David Ribbans, a South African capped by England, leading Toulon whose 23 does not include &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Paul Rees Toulon v Toulouse Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stade Felix MayolThe weather in Toulon is normally mild,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2383,393,2000,299,36,4306,11653,2619,12070,712,5707,12071,2385],"class_list":{"0":"post-18115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-champions-cup","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-leinster","14":"tag-premium","15":"tag-sale","16":"tag-saracens","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-top-14","19":"tag-toulon","20":"tag-toulouse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114333993130390212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115","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=18115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}