{"id":268670,"date":"2025-11-17T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268670\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:34:07","slug":"rod-thomas-former-wales-full-back-dies-aged-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268670\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Thomas: Former Wales full-back dies aged 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales, Swindon Town and Derby County defender Rod Thomas has died at the age of 78.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas won 50 caps for Wales between 1967 and 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The full-back joined Swindon Town from Gloucester City in 1964 and was a member of the side which won the League Cup in 1969.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1973 he moved to Derby County, where two years later he won the First Division title with the Rams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas also played for Cardiff City, Newport County, Bath City, Barry Town as well as a second spell at Gloucester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wales, Swindon Town and Derby County defender Rod Thomas has died at the age of 78. Thomas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-268670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268670","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=268670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}