{"id":617584,"date":"2025-12-07T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617584\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:47:16","slug":"wales-drawn-with-england-in-rugby-world-cup-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617584\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales drawn with England in Rugby World Cup pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce Six Nations rivals England and Wales will clash in the pool stage of the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The two nations were both named in Pool F for the expanded tournament in Australia, which for the first time will feature 24 teams.<br \/>England and Wales join Tonga and Zimbabwe, while Ireland and Scotland face Uruguay and Portugal in Pool D.<br \/>England captain Maro Itoje insists that their target is nothing short of winning the tournament.<br \/>Ambition<br \/>The Saracens second row said: \u201cOur ambition is to do very well and win this tournament.<br \/>\u201cThat\u2019s definitely our goal, that\u2019s our aim, that\u2019s our objective.<br \/>\u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fierce Six Nations rivals England and Wales will clash in the pool stage of the 2027 World Cup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,393,36,4884,2122,704,11653,4214,12070,712,4209,2196,16,15,659,1764,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-617584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-premium","15":"tag-rugby-world-cup","16":"tag-saracens","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-six-nations","19":"tag-south-africa","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-wales","24":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115677419434569842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617584","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=617584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}