{"id":35635,"date":"2026-07-06T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35635"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:05:56","slug":"england-3-2-mexico-a-game-worth-waiting-up-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35635","title":{"rendered":"England 3\u20132 Mexico: A Game Worth waiting up for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026070604.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe kick-off at 1am was delayed until 2am after an electrical storm. So lots of people in Abingdon had a very late night.<\/p>\n<p>The match itself more than made up for the wait. In an exciting match, England eventually were 3\u20132 winners over Mexico, after having to play almost half the game with ten men.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026070603.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMartin stayed up to watch it. After what turned out to be one of the best England performances he had ever seen, he managed only a couple of hours\u2019 sleep before heading off early to set up his market stall, where Abingdon 2027 calendars are now on sale.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026070605.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHe\u2019s ready for another 1am game tonight: Belgium v USA. Martin is originally from Belgium, and according to an image on his phone, \u201cthe rest of the world\u201d will be backing Belgium against the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kick-off at 1am was delayed until 2am after an electrical storm. So lots of people in Abingdon had a very late night. The match itself more than made up for the wait. In an exciting match, England eventually were 3\u20132 winners over Mexico, after having to play almost half the game with ten men. [&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-35635","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\/35635","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=35635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}