{"id":407224,"date":"2026-02-04T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407224\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:01:07","slug":"louis-rees-zammit-no-bigger-game-than-wales-v-england-says-full-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407224\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit: &#8216;No bigger game&#8217; than Wales v England, says full-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a poster boy of world rugby, Rees-Zammit&#8217;s return to the Six Nations is not only a boost for Wales, but for fans and media alike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I try to not focus on that,&#8221; Rees-Zammit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everything that I&#8217;ve had off the field has come from my skills in rugby, and obviously going to America brought a new audience, but it&#8217;s all about performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got Henry Pollock going through the same thing, he&#8217;s burst on to the scene and is playing unbelievably.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while England&#8217;s Pollock ruffles a few feathers, Rees-Zammit believes it is for the good of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to try and bring your personality out when it comes to rugby, because a lot of it gets shut down,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Henry is doing a great job of bringing his personality to the game and we need more people like that, it&#8217;ll just grow the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He obviously gets stick for it, and I got stick for it when I was younger, but you just go through it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can watch Sarra Elgan&#8217;s Six Nations 2026 Preview at 19:00 on Wednesday, 4 February on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/m002r1lf\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> BBC One Wales and iPlayer.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a poster boy of world rugby, Rees-Zammit&#8217;s return to the Six Nations is not only a boost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-407224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407224","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=407224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}