{"id":114633,"date":"2019-10-15T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/15\/gareth-southgate-praises-england-players-for-making-major-statement\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:37:08","slug":"gareth-southgate-praises-england-players-for-making-major-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114633","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Southgate praises England players for making \u2018major statement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manager \u2018incredibly proud\u2019 after players endure monkey chants\u2022 FA chairman: \u2018One of the most appalling nights I\u2019ve seen\u2019Gareth Southgate felt his England players made a \u201cmajor statement\u201d in getting their Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria in Sofia halted twice as he reflected on what Greg Clarke, the Football Association chairman, called \u201cone of the most appalling nights I\u2019ve seen in football\u201d.England\u2019s three starting black players \u2013 Tyrone Mings, Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford \u2013 were subjected to monkey chants with Mings, the debutant, saying he had first heard them during the warm-up. In line with Uefa\u2019s three-step protocol, England reported the abuse to the referee, Ivan Bebek, who passed on a message to be broadcast over the PA system for it to stop. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/oct\/14\/gareth-southgate-england-bulgaria-major-statement-racism\" target=\"_blank\">Gareth Southgate praises England players for making \u2018major statement\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manager \u2018incredibly proud\u2019 after players endure monkey chants\u2022 FA chairman: \u2018One of the most appalling nights I\u2019ve seen\u2019Gareth Southgate felt his England players made a \u201cmajor statement\u201d in getting their Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria in Sofia halted twice as he reflected on what Greg Clarke, the Football Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}