It has been a week of momentous retirements in women’s sport, as two English greats have decided to call time on their illustrious careers.
England rugby captain Sarah Hunter has announced she will retire after the opening Women’s Six Nations game against Scotland on Saturday, which is being played in her home city of Newcastle.
Sarah Hunter says the prolonged pain of England’s 2017 World Cup final defeat is fuelling her quest for a revenge mission in New Zealand this autumn.
The North Shields-born star skippered the Red Roses when they were beaten by the Black Ferns in the final five years ago, having also been a part of the side that were crowned champions in France three years earlier.
Captain Sarah Hunter returns to the England line-up for the first time in 13 months to earn her 124th cap for the Red Roses against Italy in Parma on Saturday.
There will be an all-Harlequins front row of Vickii Cornborough, Amy Cokayne and Shaunagh Brown as head coach Simon Middleton makes eight personnel plus a further two positional changes to the side which produced a convincing...
England's Red Rose stars have welcomed the opportunity to be part of Umbro's kit launch for the national side following the controversy over Ireland's kit launch last month.
The Ireland kit supplier Canterbury was criticised for getting players to wear the men's kit in publicity shots but using models for the women's kit instead.
