{"id":146149,"date":"2020-05-30T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/30\/football-is-back-and-all-it-took-was-the-spectre-of-financial-catastrophe-jonathan-liew\/"},"modified":"2020-05-30T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T23:01:26","slug":"football-is-back-and-all-it-took-was-the-spectre-of-financial-catastrophe-jonathan-liew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=146149","title":{"rendered":"Football is back and all it took was the spectre of financial catastrophe | Jonathan Liew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Restart has shrunk the sport to an elite pursuit within a sterile bubble, throwing up questions no one can answerWell done, everyone: we did it. They said it wasn\u2019t possible. They said it wasn\u2019t safe. They said it would be tactless to start up one of the world\u2019s most lucrative sports leagues while thousands are dying. They said it wouldn\u2019t be a fair competition. They may still be right about all of this, of course. More on that in a moment.But for now, football is back. Watch it. Drink it in. Lose yourself in a pure six-week football bender: 92 Premier League fixtures, spread across every day of the week and every conceivable time slot, all of it live on television, much of it free to air. Take that, null-and-voiders; dry your tears, PPG; up yours, Troy Deeney. Football is back and all it took was the spectre of financial catastrophe and the sight of Germany handling things far more adeptly. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2020\/may\/30\/premier-league-restart-spectre-financial-catastrophe\" target=\"_blank\">Football is back and all it took was the spectre of financial catastrophe | Jonathan Liew<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Restart has shrunk the sport to an elite pursuit within a sterile bubble, throwing up questions no one can answerWell done, everyone: we did it. They said it wasn\u2019t possible. They said it wasn\u2019t safe. They said it would be tactless to start up one of the world\u2019s most [&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-146149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146149","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=146149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}