{"id":331156,"date":"2025-12-23T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:11:07","slug":"ken-goodall-rugby-stars-family-appeal-for-return-of-stolen-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331156\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Goodall: Rugby star&#8217;s family appeal for return of stolen caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ken Goodall, a number eight from City of Derry RFC, rose quickly through the competitive ranks of rugby, making his Ireland debut at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the course of his rugby union career he played for Ulster, Newcastle University, Ireland and the Barbarians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1968, at the age of 21, he played on the British Lion tour of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Goodall&#8217;s Lions career did not last long after he broke a bone in his hand during his first game against Eastern Transvaal and had to return home again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After winning the last of his 19 caps in the victory over Wales, Goodall then joined rugby league side Workington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After his time in sport came to an end, Goodall returned to teach in Derry, retiring as vice-principal of Faughan Valley High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Goodall, a number eight from City of Derry RFC, rose quickly through the competitive ranks of rugby,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-331156","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\/331156","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=331156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}