{"id":224167,"date":"2025-06-29T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224167\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:15:21","slug":"battling-england-get-ready-to-turn-up-the-heat-on-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224167\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling England get ready to turn up the heat on Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England v Scotland<br \/>Today. Kick-off 2.30pm. Verona<br \/>England U20s begin the defence of their World Championship crown this afternoon, taking on familiar rivals Scotland at the Payanini Centre in Verona in a rematch of their 57-13 win from the Six Nations.<br \/>Sale Sharks lock Tom Burrow captains the side, having led England throughout the Six Nations. He will be sharing leadership duties with co-captain and fellow Yorkshireman Ben Redshaw, who starts on the bench.<br \/>England beat France in the final in South Africa last summer, but it was Les Blues who took this season\u2019s Six Nations title after Engl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England v ScotlandToday. Kick-off 2.30pm. VeronaEngland U20s begin the defence of their World Championship crown this afternoon, taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,9030,1102,393,36,4884,2199,11653,2384,712,4209,2196,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-224167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-italy","15":"tag-premium","16":"tag-sale-sharks","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-six-nations","19":"tag-south-africa","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114767077270339703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224167","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=224167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}