{"id":118224,"date":"2019-11-09T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/09\/peter-reid-i-told-boris-johnson-he-was-a-fat-lying-disgrace\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T13:00:06","slug":"peter-reid-i-told-boris-johnson-he-was-a-fat-lying-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=118224","title":{"rendered":"Peter Reid: \u2018I told Boris Johnson he was a fat, lying disgrace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former midfielder on champagne socialism, his toughest opponents and party time at Everton under Howard KendallThe air turns royally blue inside Peter Reid\u2019s home while Boris Johnson is on TV for prime minister\u2019s questions. The old Evertonian silences the Old Etonian \u2013 a feat he once achieved with a splenetic put-down rather than a mute button \u2013 and messages Adrian Heath about the Minnesota United coach\u2019s impending visit from the United States. Everton\u2019s title-winning team of 1984-85 are being reunited on Monday at a special presentation of a film about their successes under Howard Kendall. Reid\u2019s mood \u2013 and his language \u2013 is transformed by the thought of catching up with old friends and toasting an absent one.\u201cIt\u2019s a word that doesn\u2019t come out among players but it is a love,\u201d says Reid of his former Everton teammates. \u201cThat is a nice part of it. There is a love there and you cannot beat love. Even now when we meet up it is something I look forward to and it was a long, long time ago. But it is still there. We all met in the Hilton before Howard\u2019s funeral and it was emotional. But it was also warm. I was speaking at the funeral so I said I wouldn\u2019t drink. Andy Gray insisted the gaffer would want me to, so of course I did. People go on about the party time but we were dedicated professionals. Nothing got in the way of the games but when we partied, we partied.\u201d Continue reading…
\nVia: Peter Reid: \u2018I told Boris Johnson he was a fat, lying disgrace\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former midfielder on champagne socialism, his toughest opponents and party time at Everton under Howard KendallThe air turns royally blue inside Peter Reid\u2019s home while Boris Johnson is on TV for prime minister\u2019s questions. The old Evertonian silences the Old Etonian \u2013 a feat he once achieved with a […]<\/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-118224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118224","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=118224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}