{"id":15734,"date":"2014-06-23T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=15734"},"modified":"2014-06-23T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:05:15","slug":"world-cup-2014-england-vs-uruguay-portugal-vs-usa-nigera-vs-bosnia-and-herzegovnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=15734","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014:  England vs Uruguay, Portugal vs USA, Nigera vs Bosnia and Herzegovnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014.jpg\" alt=\"tagworldcup2014\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagworldcup2014-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nigbos2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nigbos2.jpg\" alt=\"nigbos2\" width=\"590\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nigbos2.jpg 590w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nigbos2-300x30.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For some reason there was practically nothing but crappy fixtures on the weekend that were friendly to Australian time zones.\u00a0 So I ended up seeing Nigeria vs Bosnia which was one of the worst games of the tournament.\u00a0 Nigeria were rolling around and time killing constantly from around the <em>70th<\/em> minute and Bosnia were creating very few chances.\u00a0 A dreadful game that made me feel sad for watching it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/untitled-40mshg.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/untitled-40mshg.gif\" alt=\"untitled-40mshg\" width=\"800\" height=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usapor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usapor.jpg\" alt=\"usapor\" width=\"557\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usapor.jpg 557w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usapor-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/abload.de\/img\/untitled-8nqkdc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ronaldo&#8230;goddamn.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like a man toying with children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the funniest things I&#8217;ve seen in reaction to this World Cup is American fans taking up the chant &#8216;I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN WIN&#8217; which ESPN is using to promote the team in their coverage.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the ad:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2uEpcfonkt4\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So when the team was leading Portgual 2-1 with only seconds left to play, it lead to this hilarious fan reaction video in Mississippi.\u00a0 &#8220;I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!\u00a0 I BELIEVE THAT&#8230;..shit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FU5karXZacg\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The group is finely poised with America on the cusp of advancing but Portugal still with a mathematical chance but a huge goal deficit to overcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/untitled-40mshg.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/untitled-40mshg.gif\" alt=\"untitled-40mshg\" width=\"800\" height=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/urueng.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/urueng.jpg\" alt=\"urueng\" width=\"464\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/urueng.jpg 464w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/urueng-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mZFaRDa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-15740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mZFaRDa.jpg\" alt=\"mZFaRDa\" width=\"449\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mZFaRDa.jpg 625w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mZFaRDa-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I managed to catch this game and saw the Luis Suarez show as he single handedly dumped England out of the tournament.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting that the three teams that can lay claim to having the best football leagues in the world &#8211; England, Italy and Spain &#8211; have all done exceptionally poorly this tournament.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if thats a coincidence, if they just can&#8217;t deal with the South American climate or if its something else.\u00a0 Regardless, it&#8217;s weird seeing England continue their poor showing at consecutive World Cups.\u00a0 As a kid, the first World Cup I remember was Italia 1990 where Paul Gascoigne and Gary Linneker were ripping it up.\u00a0 Now the team doesn&#8217;t even go out on penalties any more.\u00a0 What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At least they still make it to the tournament though.\u00a0 Spare a thought for Scotland \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highs and lows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,2013,2012,1719],"class_list":["post-15734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-england","tag-suarez","tag-uruguay","tag-world-cup-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15741,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734\/revisions\/15741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}