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The England women's rugby team haven't lost a game since the last World Cup final.

Tomorrow, they are back in another final.

This time, it's against Canada, the number two team in the world at the Alliance in front of an 82,000 sold-out crowd.

So this is it.

No pressure then. And our guest today knows just what it's like to win a home World Cup. In fact, she beat England in the last one. I'm going to

try not to go into that too much. And the nation has totally fallen in love with Ruby Too-E.

She's been a pundit for the BBC throughout this World Cup with her incredible energy and enthusiasm for the game and analyzes it brilliantly.

But what is not to love about a woman who called King Charles Bruv and got 40,000 fans singing a Maori folk song in her post-match interview after winning the last World Cup?

Welcome to the sports agents.

Yeah. World Cup. Welcome to the Sports Agents. Ruby Towi, welcome to the Sports Agents.

Hello, my friend. I'm only here because you.

Well, it's only me here today, sadly, because my co-host, Mark, is in New York getting ready for the Ryder Cup.

So I've got you all to myself, which is great, because normally I have to share you with Maggie and Simon.

Ruby, I think I should give you your accolades first two--time World Cup winner in 15s and sevens, Olympic gold medalists. So people in this country knew you, but do you feel over the last few weeks they've got to see the real Ruby Tooy? And are you feeling the love when you kind of wander out and about on the streets? I was driving yesterday through the city and I was like, man, I actually like this place.

I would never admit that when I was playing in England all the time.

I was like, man, it's actually grown on me.

Like I have felt a lot of love and I think the main way I've felt that is through just the support of this rugby world cup.

Every single live game I've gone to is basically if not not, been a sell out. And it's everyone's just been so wonderful, so kind. And there's no demographic. It's like they're all women or they're all met. It's every kind of age, everything. You can imagine. It's just been so, so wonderful. I'm so impressed by England. I am. It's a really positive experience, isn't it? Going to these matches. It really, and you come away feeling so hopeful and so joyous. And the sport has been good. And we kind of finally saw England tested last weekend. We're going to get on to what you think about the final. But let's just talk about a bit more about you because you have a

really powerful story, Ruby, which you know you document in your book and how as a lot of the

stories, we've seen a lot of VTs, haven't we, through this World Cup of players where rugby has

really changed their lives. And they found it at a time when they felt despair and hopelessness.

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