{"id":470688,"date":"2026-03-12T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470688\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:26:07","slug":"six-nations-2026-oscar-jegou-to-miss-frances-game-against-england-with-eye-gouge-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470688\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Oscar Jegou to miss France&#8217;s game against England with eye gouge ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France flanker Oscar Jegou will miss the Six Nations meeting with England on Saturday after being given a four-week suspension for gouging an opponent&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An independent disciplinary committee found that Jegou, 22, made &#8220;reckless contact with the eye(s)&#8221; of Scotland hooker Ewan Ashman during France&#8217;s 50-40 defeat at Murrayfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jegou escaped punishment during the match, but the committee decided the action warranted a red card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sanction was reduced from six weeks to four because of his prior good conduct and disciplinary record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loss to Scotland ended France&#8217;s Grand Slam hopes and means both sides go into the final round tied on 16 points in the table, vying for the title with third-placed Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jegou will miss the match against England in Paris (20:10 GMT) and will be unavailable for club games for La Rochelle against Pau, Bayonne and Newcastle Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland, whose points difference is inferior to France&#8217;s, face Ireland in Dublin on Saturday (14:10 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France flanker Oscar Jegou will miss the Six Nations meeting with England on Saturday after being given a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470688","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\/470688","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=470688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}