{"id":36070,"date":"2025-09-19T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/england-unwinds-pamper-night-before-wrwc-semi-final-vs-france\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:24:13","slug":"england-unwinds-pamper-night-before-wrwc-semi-final-vs-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/england-unwinds-pamper-night-before-wrwc-semi-final-vs-france\/","title":{"rendered":"England unwinds: Pamper night before WRWC semi-final vs France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>England Plans Relaxing Night Before Semi-Final Against France<\/h2>\n\nRosie Galligan has revealed that the England selection plans to have a &#8220;pamper night&#8221; to strengthen team unity before the World Cup semi-final against France, which will be played on Saturday at Ashton Gate.\n\nThe &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; arrive at &#8220;Le Crunch&#8221; as the undisputed favorites, but aware of the &#8220;war&#8221; ahead, they will disconnect from rugby during an evening of indulgence at their concentration hotel in Bristol.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;In fact, we&#8217;re going to have a pamper night on Wednesday, where we&#8217;ll all bring our own face masks and wear pajamas to go to our common room to watch a movie together,&#8221; Galligan commented.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Rosie Galligan<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThese moments of unity are crucial for forging strong bonds within the team, which translates into a united front on the playing field.\n\nEngland has won their last 18 matches against France, a streak that dates back to 2018. However, in their two most recent home encounters, they managed to withstand impressive comebacks from their Six Nations rivals.\n\nThey won 38-33 in 2023 and 43-42 in 2025, although on both occasions they were close to losing after having built a considerable lead.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Le Crunch is the best and probably similar for the French. When you play away, that&#8217;s when it really becomes special,&#8221; added Galligan.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Rosie Galligan<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Franco-English rivalry is something that is not taken for granted in the world of rugby.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0916%2Fr1546679_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nEngland players celebrate during their quarter-final World Cup victory against Scotland.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England Plans Relaxing Night Before Semi-Final Against France Rosie Galligan has revealed that the England selection plans to have a &#8220;pamper night&#8221; to strengthen team unity before the World Cup semi-final against France, which will be played on Saturday at Ashton Gate. The &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; arrive at &#8220;Le Crunch&#8221; as the undisputed favorites, but aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[509,684,203,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-36070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-england","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-semifinal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}