{"id":2527,"date":"2002-06-11T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2002-06-11T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T11:35:13","slug":"im-not-a-football-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/06\/11\/im-not-a-football-enthusiast\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a football enthusiast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a football enthusiast (other than following Brighton), as regular readers will know (and I&#8217;m becoming even less enthusiastic about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsagoal.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"itsagoal\">itsagoal.com<\/a> since my team lost their last eight away matches). But I have noted that Ireland have a distinct advantage over Saudi Arabia in today&#8217;s World Cup match: their names. If you wanted to catch the attention of a player in your team on a football field, wouldn&#8217;t you prefer to shout Duff, Kelly or Breen instead of &#8220;Oi! Khamis al-Owairan Al Dossary!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m not going to comment on the Denmark-France result for fear of upsetting one of my regular readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a football enthusiast (other than following Brighton), as regular readers will know (and I&#8217;m becoming even less enthusiastic about itsagoal.com since my team lost their last eight away matches). But I have noted that Ireland have a distinct advantage over Saudi Arabia in today&#8217;s World Cup match: their names. If you wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}