{"id":31148,"date":"2026-06-22T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/immanuel-feyi-waboso-exeter-winger-risked-england-place-for-prem-final-return\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T01:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:15:43","slug":"immanuel-feyi-waboso-exeter-winger-risked-england-place-for-prem-final-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/immanuel-feyi-waboso-exeter-winger-risked-england-place-for-prem-final-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Immanuel Feyi-Waboso: Exeter winger risked England place for Prem final return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After facing South Africa in Johannesburg on 4 July, England take on Fiji in Liverpool seven days later before playing Argentina in Santiago del Estero on 18 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Feyi-Waboso started in Exeter&#8217;s 26-17 Prem final loss at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, on Saturday, but said it was his decision to take part having had discussions with his surgeons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were taking it week by week,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You never know that you&#8217;re going to get to the final but when the boys put in an unbelievable shift against Bath, we had to start asking questions of the surgeons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were planning on the first game being hopefully South Africa. That would have been four or five weeks post-op and even then the chances of my jaw healing weren&#8217;t high. Two and a half weeks post-op is even worse than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We sat down with the surgeon, England and the Chiefs. Eventually it was all my decision, but they just laid the information out to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They said take a direct blow to the jaw and it&#8217;s likely the repair is going to fail, but you can try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Feyi-Waboso has confirmed he was involved in an altercation with a Bath fan at the end of Exeter&#8217;s semi-final win at the Recreation Ground that was sparked when a drink was thrown at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Feyi-Waboso was sitting in the stands supporting the team alongside other injured and non-selected Chiefs players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the fans when we were celebrating after, he was leaving at the time,&#8221; Feyi-Waboso added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was absolutely fine during the match, but as soon as he was leaving he chucked a drink over me, pushed me and threw the cup in my face. What can you do apart from rip his shirt? What can you do? So that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvg4162v3dno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After facing South Africa in Johannesburg on 4 July, England take on Fiji in Liverpool seven days later before playing Argentina in Santiago del Estero on 18 July. Feyi-Waboso started in Exeter&#8217;s 26-17 Prem final loss at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, on Saturday, but said it was his decision to take part having had discussions with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31150,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31148\/revisions\/31150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}