{"id":292588,"date":"2023-09-16T01:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=292588"},"modified":"2023-09-16T01:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:40:41","slug":"england-flanker-ben-earl-shares-quirky-dressing-room-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/rugby-union\/england-flanker-ben-earl-shares-quirky-dressing-room-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"England flanker Ben Earl shares quirky dressing room challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>England flanker Ben Earl shares the very quirky dressing room challenge set to Steve Borthwick&#8217;s players ahead of the Rugby World Cup &#8211; which saw Henry Arundell buy the team CROCS<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The team building exercise saw the side exchange a number of random gifts\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Crocs are the first pair that the Saracens man has ever worn &#8211; but he&#8217;s a fan\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s Nik Simon and Kevin Quigley offer insider&#8217;s look at the World cup<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Earl has revealed the quirky challenge set to all of the players in the England camp ahead of joining up for the World Cup in France.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Mail Sport&#8217;s Nik Simon on web-series &#8216;Croqued Monsieurs: An Alternative World Cup Diary&#8217;, the Saracens flanker showed off a brand-new pair of Crocs, which were given to him by Henry Arundell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earl explained: &#8216;We had a team of 33. so every lad had to get 33 gifts for themselves and their team-mates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Henry Arundell kindly got us all a pair of white Crocs. Hence my initials on these, just to differentiate myself from everyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;First pair of Crocs I&#8217;ve ever worn,&#8217; Earl continued. &#8216;And they are so, so comfortable. They look very very average, but here we are.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/19\/75485285-0-image-a-80_1694801457934.jpg\" height=\"944\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ben Earl described the dressing room challenge England had to do ahead of the World Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/19\/75485143-0-image-a-79_1694801454056.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Saracens flanker enjoyed a winning start to the competition against Argentina last week<\/p>\n<p>On his own gift idea, Earl shared: &#8216;I\u00a0got everyone a random football shirt. It&#8217;s called Shirt in a Box &#8211; you buy this box and you don&#8217;t know what football shirt&#8217;s going to be in it, so there have been some real howlers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ollie Lawrence got a 96 Italy shirt, whilst Owen Farrell got an Eastern European shirt &#8211; we don&#8217;t actually know what the team&#8217;s called, but it&#8217;s got Fruit and Nut as a sponsor, which is fascinating.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>England will face Japan in Nice on Sunday evening in their second pool match in Group D.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12524035\/England-flanker-Ben-Earl-shares-quirky-dressing-room-challenge-set-Steve-Borthwicks-players-ahead-Rugby-World-Cup-saw-Henry-Arundell-buy-team-CROCS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England flanker Ben Earl shares the very quirky dressing room challenge set to Steve Borthwick&#8217;s players ahead of the Rugby <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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