{"id":433816,"date":"2026-02-19T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:44:19","slug":"six-nations-2026-englands-henry-arundell-gets-start-against-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433816\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: England’s Henry Arundell gets start against Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

England wing Henry Arundell has been backed to “play super well” in Saturday’s Six Nations clash with Ireland at Twickenham after keeping his place despite a red card last weekend.<\/p>\n

Coach Steve Borthwick has kept faith with the 23-year-old after he was shown two yellow cards in the 31-20 Six Nations defeat by Scotland.<\/a><\/p>\n

Arundell was sin-binned for not releasing his opponent early on in the match and then received a second yellow for taking out Kyle Steyn in the air.<\/p>\n

The Bath wing received an automatic 20-minute red card that meant his team-mates played with 14 men for a total of 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Borthwick has made three changes<\/a> to his starting XV for the Ireland game but kept faith with the exciting wing.<\/p>\n

He said: “Saturday [against Scotland] didn’t go the way he wanted it to, the way I wanted it to go for him, and he was bitterly disappointed as we all were. Now we back him to go and play super well this weekend.<\/p>\n

“I want the ball in his hands. Every England supporter will want the ball in his hands in a bit of space this weekend.”<\/p>\n

A disciplinary hearing on Tuesday found that “no further sanction was appropriate”, freeing Arundell to play.<\/p>\n

A statement said: “The player accepted that he had committed the acts of foul play that resulted in the showing of the two yellow cards.<\/p>\n

“In the circumstances (including that the first yellow card had been issued for a ‘technical offence’, and that the second yellow card had been issued for a very different act of foul play), [it was decided that] the sending off of the player had been a sufficient sanction.”<\/p>\n

Arundell has scored four tries in two games – a hat-trick against Wales and England’s opening try at Murrayfield – and is the top scorer in the Six Nations so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England wing Henry Arundell has been backed to “play super well” in Saturday’s Six Nations clash with Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-433816","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\/433816","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=433816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}