Emma McClarkin MEP Gives Her Support to England Rugby Union Team

East Midlands Conservative MEP Emma McClarkin has this week given her support to the English Rugby Union team in advance of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

The Rugby World Cup starts tomorrow (9^th Sept) and runs until the 23^rd October, with 20 Nations be competing at 13 venues across New Zealand.

England won the World Cup in 2003, and were runners up in 2007. The team is currently 5^th in the World Rankings behind New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and France.

The first England game is taking place against Argentina at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, on Saturday 10^thSept at 8:30pm New Zealand time (9:30am UK time). Later England games in the pool stage will be against Georgia on 18^th Sept (7am UK time), Romania on 24^th Sept (7am UK time), and Scotland on 1^st Oct (8:30am UK time).

Emma, who used to work for the Rugby Football Union, and is now the Conservative spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport in the European Parliament, said:

“As a big Rugby fan I am looking forward with great anticipation to a fantastic tournament in New Zealand.

I want to wish Martin Johnson and the whole England team the best of luck at the World Cup. We have a lot of young talent and I hope they can do us all proud and bring the World Cup back home ahead of our hosting the RWC in 2015.

“I’ll be getting up early to watch all their games over breakfast, and I would urge all sports fans to ‘Get Up for England’ and cheer on our boys.”