{"id":191224,"date":"2025-12-14T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:53:11","slug":"nigel-owens-interview-im-wondering-if-rugby-has-lost-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191224\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Owens interview: \u2018I\u2019m wondering if rugby has lost its way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former international rugby referee Nigel Owens. Photo: Steve Humphries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765709591_802_c6877a00-e1c6-4c1f-b4ec-dac2c4dd67a9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former international rugby referee Nigel Owens. Photo: Steve Humphries<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Nigel Owens found himself in an unusual spot last month: He was on unsteady ground during the Autumn Nations Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The legendary referee may have hung up his whistle, but he remains involved, as a pundit on Welsh television, and presents a weekly show about the big decisions in the international game on YouTube called Whistle Watch for World Rugby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former international rugby referee Nigel Owens. Photo: Steve Humphries Nigel Owens found himself in an unusual spot last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,16766,112],"class_list":["post-191224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}