{"id":539,"date":"2008-06-11T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-06-11T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:26:03","slug":"scolaris-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Scolari&#039;s the man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/breakingnews.ie\/sport\/mhgbojgbeysn\/\" target=\"_blank\">off to Chelsea<\/a> after all. He has &#8220;winner&#8221; stamped all over his CV but I was kind of hoping for Frank Rijkaard. But then Big Phil is Brasilian so I&#8217;m on his side and look forward to seeing what he brings to the Premiership.<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for Switzerland, even if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/euro2008\/2008\/0611\/switzerland_turkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">their elimination<\/a> was a foregone conclusion before a ball was kicked. Unlike Japan and South Korea during the 2002 World Cup, they were never going to cause an upset. They&#8217;re not a bad team, but this was never going to be their year. It must sting to put so much effort into hosting a major tournament only to be knocked out in the first round. However, I hope that they can win their final group match and at least go out with some pride. (EDIT: Although they&#8217;re playing Portugal, so the likelihood of that happening is small)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rooting for Germany, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So he&#8217;s off to Chelsea after all. He has &#8220;winner&#8221; stamped all over his CV but I was kind of hoping for Frank Rijkaard. But then Big Phil is Brasilian so I&#8217;m on his side and look forward to seeing what he brings to the Premiership. I feel sorry for Switzerland, even if their elimination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}