{"id":330959,"date":"2025-12-23T04:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330959\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:11:07","slug":"martin-johnson-has-named-the-three-best-rugby-players-he-ever-played-with-page-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330959\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Johnson has named the three best rugby players he ever played with &#8211; Page 3 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hill<\/p>\n<p>Bio:<br \/>One of the most understated back-row forwards in rugby history, Richard Hill was the ultimate team player. <\/p>\n<p>With 71 England caps and a central role in the 2003 World Cup win, Hill\u2019s influence was often felt more than it was seen \u2014 through work rate, defensive reads and tactical intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said:<br \/>\u201cA quiet guy, very understated, was the pick. When he was with the Lions teams, if he didn\u2019t play, we didn\u2019t win. He would be embarrassed to be in this side, but he deserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hill was never flashy, but Johnson knew exactly how vital he was \u2014 the kind of player teams miss the moment he\u2019s not there.<\/p>\n<p>EDITORS PICKS:<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Hill Bio:One of the most understated back-row forwards in rugby history, Richard Hill was the ultimate team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-330959","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\/330959","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=330959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}