{"id":697042,"date":"2026-07-17T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:55:10","slug":"england-could-walk-off-if-racially-abused-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697042\/","title":{"rendered":"England could walk off if racially abused in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George, who is captaining the side with Maro Itoje rested, said leaving the field of play is an option should any abuse happen again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s something being considered. If anything like that happened then it deserves the strongest of reactions. There is no place for that in the world and I feel incredibly strongly about that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had discussions around &#8216;what if?&#8217;. I really hope \u2013 and I&#8217;m optimistic \u2013 that the Argentinian Rugby Union has taken it very seriously. At the same time we&#8217;ve got a plan B if that doesn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first thing we&#8217;d do is make the referee aware of what we&#8217;ve seen so it can be properly logged and all the protocols can go into play. What we do outside of that we&#8217;re still deciding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George, 35, was a late withdrawal from the starting XV in San Juan last year after being called up for the Lions tour to Australia but was present for the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something I will remember for the rest of my life when I heard what had happened \u2013 and it wasn&#8217;t directed at me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was directed at my team-mates and I care about my team-mates more than anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will continue to have conversations with a select group of players from different ethnic backgrounds and we will come up with a plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have won nine of their past 10 meetings with the Pumas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George, who is captaining the side with Maro Itoje rested, said leaving the field of play is an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697042","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\/697042","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=697042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}