{"id":1543,"date":"2006-06-23T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/06\/which_match\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T13:02:59","slug":"which_match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/which_match\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the BBC chose to show Brazil v Japan rather than the simultaneous Australia v Croatia. This was pretty disappointing because even though Japan took an unlikely early lead, it was obvious that Japan needed to rely on the other result and then score a hatful against Brazil to get through.<br \/>\nI was watching Australia v Crotia in a pub and it was a much livelier affair. Croatia needed a win and Australia just a draw. So when Croatia took an early lead the many Australians in the pub were a little disappointed. On a nearby table was a group of Croatian girls, so we decided to side with them (actually it was one Croatian and her Swedish mates). So when Australia equalised for a second time, a big Australian bloke decided to almost pick a fight with me for not supporting Australia. Something to do with us both being in the Commonwealth or something.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t bother getting into why the English are always likely to prefer the other side to Australia &#8211; if only to wind up a sports mad nation. In fact, I was pretty neutral in reality, and was only cheering Croatia because the Croat girl was really pretty.<br \/>\nSo there it is then. My allegiance can be bought by whoever has the prettiest fans.<br \/>\nI see that the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/overnights\/story\/0,,1804407,00.html\">ratings<\/a> for BBC 3 are some of the best they&#8217;ve had with that game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the BBC chose to show Brazil v Japan rather than the simultaneous Australia v Croatia. This was pretty disappointing because even though Japan took an unlikely early lead, it was obvious that Japan needed to rely on the other result and then score a hatful against Brazil to get through. I was watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}