{"id":54718,"date":"2016-06-12T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/england_show_signs_of_promise_then_squander_a_1-0_lead_at_the_end_to_get_a_\/"},"modified":"2016-06-12T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T01:00:04","slug":"england_show_signs_of_promise_then_squander_a_1-0_lead_at_the_end_to_get_a_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54718","title":{"rendered":"England show signs of promise, then squander a 1-0 lead at the end to get a tie w Russia in Euro2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England were unrecognisable from the side knocked out of the 2014 World Cup after just five days and yet a similar story unfolded in Marseille. Roy Hodgson, at 68, holds the most coffee-stained birth certificate of any manager in France this summer and yet he has thrown together the youngest squad.<\/p>\n<p>Tarred with a not entirely unjustified reputation for preferring a conservative, risk-management brand of football, Hodgson\u2019s top-heavy troupe carry a vibrancy about them seldom witnessed in the past decade. Russia, however, were low hanging fruit and yet they still managed to penetrate a leaky back-four. For all of Hodgson\u2019s intrepid intentions, it\u2019s the same old story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/international\/england-vs-russia-five-things-we-learned-as-england-show-promise-but-fall-back-into-bad-habits-a7077281.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England were unrecognisable from the side knocked out of the 2014 World Cup after just five days and yet a similar story unfolded in Marseille. Roy Hodgson, at 68, holds the most coffee-stained birth certificate of any manager in France<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54718\">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":[39,50,199,200,468,125,479,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-france","category-men","category-russia","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54718","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=54718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}