{"id":117590,"date":"2025-09-06T01:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117590\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:22:11","slug":"stefan-ratchford-warrington-wolves-full-back-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117590\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Ratchford: Warrington Wolves full-back announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I first arrived I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d last six months so to have been here for 14 years is a great feeling and it&#8217;s an unbelievable journey that I&#8217;ve had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It probably hit me most this week when I was speaking to my eldest daughter about my last home game and she said that&#8217;s all she&#8217;s ever known. There&#8217;s sadness, but happiness and excitement also for what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think once the boots are fully hung up I&#8217;ll reflect more on what I&#8217;ve been able to achieve here and it will truly hit me then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warrington sit six points outside the Super League play-off places with three regular season games remaining. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They face Leigh Leopards at home on Saturday (15:00 BST), with away games to follow at Hull FC and Hull KR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;When I first arrived I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d last six months so to have been here for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-117590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}