{"id":106,"date":"2002-07-08T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-08T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2024-03-19T22:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:27:40","slug":"they-think-its-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/they-think-its-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"They think it&#8217;s all over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-754\" title=\"The Ball 2002\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Ball 2002\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2002\/07\/the_ball_2002_560.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">It is now.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Ball has now returned back to England, but we&#8217;re not done with it quite yet &#8211; this site will continue to develop even though there&#8217;s no more Cup. As well as the continuing saga on video, there will be flashbacks to times we didn&#8217;t manage to write about, more on the real story of how football left home, and some extra eyecandy for you all. With a bit of luck, we&#8217;ll keep this site growing and changing until The Ball 2006 leaves for Germany in just under four years time.<\/p>\n<p><i>World Cup 2002 RIP.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/06\/en\/loc\/index.html\">World Cup 2006<\/a> here we come: <a href=\"\/2006\/\">a new blog<\/a> and another plan for a trip.<\/p>\n<p><i>Roll on 2006!<\/i><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 15px;\">The Videos<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added a <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/\">video page<\/a> to the site where you can find all the videos that are currently online and interspersed among the stories. Now you can browse the story more conveniently from a single page.<\/p>\n<p>A fast connection (ie, faster than a modem) is recommended if you don&#8217;t want to have to go and make a cup of tea each time you click a link. You&#8217;ll also need a recent version of <a href=\"www.apple.com\/quicktime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quicktime<\/a> to view the videos, although a direct link to the file is provided if you want to watch it through another viewer.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the videos were edited during the trip by Monika at <i>Alles ist Moglich!<\/i> in Berlin, who has been a star for putting up with our dodgy logging and for wading through the endless rushes. Thanks, Monika&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And so, at last, we blow the the final whistle, only to find that it may be the start of something new&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"8000 Miles in Five Minutes\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vu359HWhqnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>The promo video. The trip, the whole trip, and nothing but the trip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/8000-miles-in-five-minutes\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/images\/the_ball_on_white_320.jpg\" alt=\"The Ball 2002\" \/><br \/>\n<i>It is now.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Ball has now returned back to England, but we&#8217;re not done with it quite yet &#8211; this site will continue to develop even though there&#8217;s no more Cup. As well as the continuing saga on video, there will be flashbacks to times we didn&#8217;t manage to write about, more on the real story of how football left home, and some extra eyecandy for you all. With a bit of luck, we&#8217;ll keep this site growing and changing until The Ball 2006 leaves for Germany in just under four years time.<\/p>\n<p><i>World Cup 2002 RIP.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/06\/en\/loc\/index.html\">World Cup 2006<\/a> here we come: <a href=\"\/2006\/\">a new blog<\/a> and another plan for a trip.<\/p>\n<p><i>Roll on 2006!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england"],"geo":{"latitude":51.49987409999999954379745759069919586181640625,"longitude":-0.06278509999999999646735915348472190089523792266845703125,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}