{"id":103037,"date":"2021-06-13T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103037"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:34:12","slug":"england-rewriting-historic-failings-as-raheem-sterling-kalvin-phillips-shine-in-croatia-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103037","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN FC) England rewriting historic failings as Raheem Sterling, Kalvin Phillips shine in Croatia win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate is aiming to chip away at the historic tournament failings that have perennially undermined England&#8217;s chances, and Sunday&#8217;s 1-0 win over Croatia at Wembley Stadium is another notable step along that path.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old is steeped in Three Lions history, standing prominently in the lineage of biannual disappointment dating back to 1966. As a player, he missed the decisive penalty in England&#8217;s Euro &#8217;96 defeat against Germany before reshaping his place in the national consciousness as manager of a progressive team for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/england-eng\/story\/4407354\/england-rewriting-historic-failings-as-sterlingphillips-shine-in-croatia-win\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Live piece from Wembley after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eng?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eng<\/a> 1-0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cro<\/a>. England win their opening match at a Euros for the first time. Southgate takes another step forward in chipping away and England\u2019s historic tournament failings &#8211; and does so his way: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9q8WJ49Jk3\">https:\/\/t.co\/9q8WJ49Jk3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Olley (@JamesOlley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesOlley\/status\/1404108979316445185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate is aiming to chip away at the historic tournament failings that have perennially undermined England&#8217;s chances, and Sunday&#8217;s 1-0 win over Croatia at Wembley Stadium is another notable step along that path. The 50-year-old is steeped in Three<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103037\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,200,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103040,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037\/revisions\/103040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}