{"id":300798,"date":"2025-12-05T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300798\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:31:06","slug":"tom-curry-england-flanker-to-escape-action-over-tunnel-tussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300798\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Curry: England flanker to escape action over tunnel tussle"},"content":{"rendered":"

England flanker Tom Curry will escape any punishment for a tunnel tussle with Argentina coach Felipe Contepomi in the ill-tempered aftermath of their teams’ autumn international.<\/p>\n

Contepomi accused Curry of being a “bully”,<\/a> claiming the 27-year-old pushed him in the chest as the pair argued over a tackle which left the Pumas full-back Juan Cruz Mallia with knee ligament damage.<\/p>\n

However, after reviewing security camera footage from Allianz Stadium and taking statements from those involved, the Six Nations, which organises the autumn series, has opted against taking action.<\/p>\n

“Considering all factors leading into and beyond incident, based on the balance of information, and acknowledging a highly charged end to the fixture, no formal sanction will be issued to either party,” it said.<\/p>\n

However, it has warned that the incident will remain on file though for both Curry and Contepomi.<\/p>\n

“Should a similar incident by either party occur in future tournaments, the record of this incident will be brought to the attention of the relevant Disciplinary Committee,” it added.<\/p>\n

Curry was confronted by several Argentina players after the final whistle of England’s 27-23 win, <\/a>with Harlequins wing Rodrigo Isgro among those angered by his tackle on Mallia.<\/p>\n

Curry had made contact with Toulouse’s Mallia just after he had kicked upfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England flanker Tom Curry will escape any punishment for a tunnel tussle with Argentina coach Felipe Contepomi in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-300798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300798","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=300798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}