{"id":46,"date":"2006-06-01T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/01\/the-phantom-fouler-strikes-again"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T15:29:53","slug":"the-phantom-fouler-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/01\/the-phantom-fouler-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Phantom Fouler strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/dover\/uk_dover_phantom_fouler.jpg\" alt=\"The Phantom Fouler\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Phantom Fouler<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Battersea Park to Dover\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntbOraUl3jw?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 Ball takes in some landmarks on its way to the Kentish coast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/videos\/battersea-park-to-dover\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>So The Ball has left Battersea Park and is now bouncing its way to Europe. Phil and I have reached the most iconic stretch of English coastline there is: the White Cliffs of Dover. Last time, in 2002, we kicked a long ball straight across the Channel to a beach near Calais&#8230; and the idea was to do the same this year. Until the (in)famous Phantom Fouler intervened, that is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/china\/xian\/rob_warrior.jpg\" alt=\"The Phantom Fouler in Xi'an\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Phantom Fouler in Xi&#8217;an<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t come across him before, he&#8217;s the Terracotta Warrior who ruthlessly hacked Phil down in Xi&#8217;an, providing us with the free-kick that took us direct to Tiananmen Square. You can watch the video in <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/27\/mao-say-do\">this post from 2002<\/a>, or read the story in <a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/27\/warrior-on\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So then, will The Ball make it across the Channel? Will &#8220;fair play&#8221; win out in the end? Watch the next episode to find out if we make it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantom Fouler So The Ball has left Battersea Park and is now bouncing its way to Europe. Phil and I have reached the most iconic stretch of English coastline there is: the White Cliffs of Dover. Last time, in 2002, we kicked a long ball straight across the Channel to a beach near Calais&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-video"],"geo":{"latitude":51.1332893000000012762029655277729034423828125,"longitude":1.3483142999999999656068894182681106030941009521484375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}