{"id":163987,"date":"2025-09-23T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163987\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:32:07","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-scotlands-hollie-davidson-to-referee-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163987\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2025: Scotland&#8217;s Hollie Davidson to referee World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davidson added: &#8220;You never know when these games will come around again, so what I&#8217;ve learned across my career is to be very focused but enjoy the moment. That&#8217;s when I referee my best, is when I&#8217;m present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t take the job lightly and I want to go out and do my job to the best of my ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa&#8217;s Aimee Barrett-Theron and Italy&#8217;s Clara Munarini will be Davidson&#8217;s assistant referees, with Ireland&#8217;s Leo Colgan the television match official and Italy&#8217;s Matteo Liperini the foul play review officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rugby World Cups are the pinnacle in our sport and to referee two finals is an outstanding achievement that should not be underestimated,&#8221; World Rugby women&#8217;s high-performance referee manager Alhambra Nievas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hollie is a top referee, a trailblazer and a role model, setting a standard to which the match officials&#8217; group aspires to. I hope that all those selected cherish what will be a very special finals day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davidson added: &#8220;You never know when these games will come around again, so what I&#8217;ve learned across my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-163987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}