{"id":4291,"date":"2025-07-18T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:44:08","slug":"usa-v-england-kit-clash-chaos-ahead-of-fixture-that-has-left-sour-taste-planet-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4291\/","title":{"rendered":"USA v England: Kit clash chaos ahead of fixture that has left sour taste : Planet Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As USA prepare to host England on Saturday at Audi Field, Planet Rugby understands that there\u2019s been a little bit of a kerfuffle over the rights for the home team, USA, to wear their predominantly white kit.<\/p>\n<p>USA sources told us exclusively that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> informed them last week that they were wearing their white kit and that the Eagles were the ones that would have to change.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons stated were unclear \u2013 vacillating between a need to promote the new white Castore kit and a claim that \u201cthey\u2019d run out of the change strip\u201d due to using it in two Tests against Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles frustration<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/usa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a> sources expressed frustration at the call, suggesting that it was a case of a bit of them and us in terms of Tier One and Tier Two hierarchy and were very disappointed at not being able to wear their famous white with red and blue detailing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/how-to-watch-usa-v-england-free-live-stream-channel-and-kick-off-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to watch USA v England free: Live stream, channel and kick-off time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up until very recently, it was, of course, traditional for the home team to change in case of a kit clash, but regulations were brought in recently to assist with accessibility issues for viewers with sight issues.<\/p>\n<p>World Rugby Regulation 15.8 states: At least three (3) months prior to the commencement of an International Tour Unions shall exchange Team kit colours and agree if there is any clash of Team kits. If a clash exists between the proposed Team kits, the CEO of World Rugby or his nominee will seek to resolve the matter. However, in the event of a clash of kits, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, the Host Union shall be entitled to wear its home kit.<\/p>\n<p>England tour finale<\/p>\n<p>It is uncertain who made the final decision on the kit change.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Borthwick\u2019s England side go into the game in Washington D.C. on the back of two impressive wins over Los Pumas, with this the final match of their Americas tour.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/usa-v-england-preview-george-ford-to-orchestrate-emphatic-result-as-faded-winger-reignites-international-career\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA v England preview: George Ford to orchestrate \u2019emphatic\u2019 result as faded winger \u2018reignites\u2019 international career<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As USA prepare to host England on Saturday at Audi Field, Planet Rugby understands that there\u2019s been a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,1208,818,1182,44,105,2957],"class_list":{"0":"post-4291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-internationals","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","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=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}