NEWS EXTRA
By SAM JACKSON

THE RFU aims to submit a bid to host the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2025.
The 2014 winners’ main rivals for the rights to host are likely to be France, with a decision expected in May 2022.
The RFU’s plan involves staging the “best-attended women’s Rugby World Cup ever” and the governing body aims to sell out Twickenham for the final after nationwide pool games.
The bid will be submitted to World Rugby in January “subject to securing sufficient private and public-sector funding”
In September, the RFU also confirmed its desire to bid for the 2031 edition of the...