{"id":175795,"date":"2025-10-02T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175795\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:24:04","slug":"when-girls-had-to-play-rugby-in-secret-womens-rugby-world-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175795\/","title":{"rendered":"When girls had to play rugby in secret | Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Red Roses on a magnificent win in the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup final (Sport, 27 September<\/a>). How things have changed. At boarding school in south Wales in the early 1950s, we avidly followed those desirable young men in the local and Welsh national teams. To emulate our idols, we would play an illicit and unmaidenly game of touch rugby on an asphalt netball court when our fearsome gym mistress wasn\u2019t looking, switching quickly to netball if she appeared.
Valerie Lewis
Wantage, Oxfordshire<\/p>\n

When cycling, I make no assumptions about priority on shared paths that allow pedestrians and cyclists (Letters, 29 September<\/a>). I merely politely \u201cding-ding\u201d when pedestrians are sprawled across the whole carriageway, often with a dog on a very long lead. I am aware that bringing dogs into the mix is likely to set a cat among the pigeons.
Deirdre Burrell
Mortimer, Berkshire<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s prime minister has said the current \u201cpeace\u201d proposals will ensure that \u201cGaza never again poses a threat to Israel\u201d (Report, 29 September<\/a>). Will the proposals also ensure that Israel never again poses a threat to Palestinians?
Blaine Stothard
London <\/p>\n

A favourite subtitle mondegreen of mine was \u201cJerry the taxman\u201d for Jeremy Paxman (Letters, 30 September<\/a>).
Sue Wallace
Thame, Oxfordshire<\/p>\n

Sperm racing has got $10m seed funding? I cannot conceive of a more fitting source (G2, 30 September<\/a>).
Ron Jacob
London<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Red Roses on a magnificent win in the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup final (Sport, 27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175795","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\/175795","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=175795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}