{"id":270581,"date":"2025-11-08T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270581\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:57:15","slug":"richard-sharp-tributes-paid-to-former-england-rugby-captain-from-redruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270581\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Sharp: Tributes paid to former England rugby captain from Redruth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tributes from Cornwall have been paid to former England captain Richard Sharp who has died aged 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fly-half won 14 caps for England, leading them to the 1963 Five Nations title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1962 he toured with the British and Irish Lions to South Africa where he scored 45 points in 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharp grew up in Redruth and made his name at the Cornish town&#8217;s club before representing Wasps and Bristol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He never forgot his roots, I remember him always saying that no matter what changing room he went in around the world, the Redruth one meant the most to him,&#8221; Redruth RFC president Dave Penberthy told BBC Radio Cornwall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was the most humble man you&#8217;ll ever meet, and he played some very, very good rugby at Wasps, at Bristol, but he always loved playing here and this club meant so much to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes from Cornwall have been paid to former England captain Richard Sharp who has died aged 87. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-270581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270581","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=270581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}