{"id":2029,"date":"2010-06-01T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2014-06-11T21:43:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T11:43:02","slug":"world-cup-2010-australia-vs-denmark-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2010:  Australia vs Denmark [friendly]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>0 min <\/em>This is the first of two remaining friendlies for the Socceroos on African soil before the competition kicks off.<\/p>\n<p><em>45 min<\/em> It&#8217;s scoreless at halftime and so far, we&#8217;re looking better than we were against the All Whites.\u00a0 My biggest concern at the moment is how I&#8217;m going to keep my sanity for the next six weeks listening to the constant loud buzzing noise coming out of my television set:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11kfukj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2030 aligncenter\" title=\"11kfukj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11kfukj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11kfukj.jpg 407w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11kfukj-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11kfukj-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Jesus Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Neogaf&#8217;s Official World Cup page tells me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vuvuzela is a long blowing horn made out of plastic particularly liked by South African football fans. They play it at both league and international games to support their team.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA considered banning the vuvuzela for the 2010 World Cup at one point due to the number of complaints but Sepp Blatter was against the idea saying &#8220;We should not try to Europeanise an African World Cup&#8221; and in the end FIFA decided to allow them into the stadiums at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>So basically you&#8217;ll either be a killjoy and mute your tv or you will rejoice in the atmosphere it creates and smeer food on your face in exaltation. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2j3s3us.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2031\" title=\"2j3s3us\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2j3s3us.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favourite email that I received today was titled &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Surprised If No Americans Make It To The World Cup&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usaworldcup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2032\" title=\"usaworldcup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usaworldcup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usaworldcup.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/usaworldcup-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>90 min <\/em>Okay, that was a much better game from the Socceroos.\u00a0 We looked reasonably solid in defence, Wilkshire&#8217;s crosses were dangerous, Kennedy and Holman had a good partnership going there and we got the win.\u00a0 Goodnight all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0 min This is the first of two remaining friendlies for the Socceroos on African soil before the competition kicks off. 45 min It&#8217;s scoreless at halftime and so far, we&#8217;re looking better than we were against the All Whites.\u00a0 My biggest concern at the moment is how I&#8217;m going to keep my sanity for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[543,541,544,465],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-liveblog","tag-south-africa","tag-vuvuzela","tag-world-cup-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}