{"id":464402,"date":"2026-03-08T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464402\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:02:08","slug":"tributes-to-ex-bristol-rugby-captain-matt-salter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/464402\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to ex-Bristol Rugby captain Matt Salter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Matt will be greatly missed across the Clifton and wider Bristol rugby community,&#8221; Clifton Rugby added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;An outstanding leader for Bristol, he captained the club for four seasons and he led from the front, without any question at all,&#8221; said Bristol Bears and rugby historian, Mark Hoskins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have one memory of a game in Gloucester, where Bristol hadn&#8217;t won for about 12 years, where quite near the end he had to leave the field because his face was covered in blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But a few minutes later he was back on because another player was injured, he was that sort of player, he gave absolutely 100% for his team and a great, great leader,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Matt will be greatly missed across the Clifton and wider Bristol rugby community,&#8221; Clifton Rugby added. &#8220;An outstanding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-464402","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\/464402","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=464402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}