{"id":663,"date":"2006-05-23T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/23\/armchair_hooligans_to_be_banned_from_football"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:14:21","slug":"armchair_hooligans_to_be_banned_from_football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/23\/armchair_hooligans_to_be_banned_from_football","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Armchair hooligans&#8221; to be banned from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &quot;you couldn&#39;t make it up&quot; department (this is from yesterday, but I&#39;ve just remembered that I meant to blog it &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Armchair hooligans face ban at domestic matches - Britain - Times Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2191252,00.html\">Armchair hooligans face ban at domestic matches &#8211; Britain &#8211; Times Online<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFOOTBALL fans who commit crimes, including domestic violence, after watching the World Cup on television will face a ban from domestic games next season.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So a man who gets stressed out and beats his wife because England (predictably) loses a football match to Germany or Argentina will be told he can&#39;t go to league matches come the wintertime.  Perish the thought that he might get into a bit of a fight afterwards &#8211; he&#39;ll have to stay at home and watch it on the telly!  Pity his poor wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &quot;you couldn&#39;t make it up&quot; department (this is from yesterday, but I&#39;ve just remembered that I meant to blog it &#8230;) Armchair hooligans face ban at domestic matches &#8211; Britain &#8211; Times&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42450,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/42450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}