{"id":32416,"date":"2024-07-15T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32416"},"modified":"2024-07-15T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:08:12","slug":"football-dreams-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32416","title":{"rendered":"Football Dreams and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024071505.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA surge in England flags came in the days between semi-final and final<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024071504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSunday&#8217;s newspapers had a wrap-around advert with a patriotic twist. A &#8216;T&#8217; was designed to resemble the England flag. It said, &#8216;Every Fan Helps&#8217;.\u00a0 Tesco Express closed at 7:30pm so more fans could watch the match. The Co-op did the same.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024071502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFollowing England&#8217;s Euro Cup final loss, Monday&#8217;s headlines were: &#8216;Next Time, Boys&#8217;, &#8216;Shattered&#8217;, and &#8216;You did us proud&#8217;. The dramatic Trump assassination attempt in the US was mostly on the inside pages.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024071503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nElsewhere, thoughts turned to the summer holidays.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024071301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCaldecott Rec. was busy on Saturday as coaches celebrated last season&#8217;s successes by awarding trophies and describing the development of their young players. While no local lads made it into the England team this time, they can dream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge in England flags came in the days between semi-final and final Sunday&#8217;s newspapers had a wrap-around advert with a patriotic twist. A &#8216;T&#8217; was designed to resemble the England flag. It said, &#8216;Every Fan Helps&#8217;.\u00a0 Tesco Express closed at 7:30pm so more fans could watch the match. The Co-op did the same. Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}