{"id":36,"date":"2004-06-22T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2004-06-22T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:12:14","slug":"england-4-croatia-spanked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"England 4 – Croatia spanked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading the teleprinter (remember World Of Sport?) on last night’s match, my resident pundit Andy<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

“OK, we knew what the result had to be after the national anthems. The only anthem more dirge-like than our own. <\/p>\n

A commendable performance. However once again there were weak moments and performances.<\/p>\n

The first Croatian goal? Set-piece, cough. A decent keeper would have been on top of that and would have held it. The second Croatian goal? More or less a set-piece. I hate to have to agree with Peter Reid on account of his being a scouser and all, but that back post was more open than a Off License in Keighley. Michael Owen was his usual self though. Good to know that our prized striker is always a yard shorter than the previous time. I had visions of him being sat in the crowd by the end of the game. Which is where he should be.<\/p>\n

I was more impressed with the Croatian keeper than James which is going some seeing he let in four goals.<\/p>\n

Rooney though? Rooney? Say it with me now. ROONEY. You knew both his were going in. The man may be a scouser but Jesus H son of a Biscuit Christ, there is hope in this life.<\/p>\n

I’d have personally prefered Greece (cough, Ronaldo, cough) but Portugal will do.<\/p>\n

One last bit of punditry. Nice shades Posh.”<\/p>\n

I have family in Keighley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading the teleprinter (remember World Of Sport?) on last night’s match, my resident pundit Andy writes: “OK, we knew what the result had to be after the national anthems. The only anthem more dirge-like than our own. A commendable performance. However once again there were weak moments and performances. The first Croatian goal? Set-piece, cough. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}