{"id":74,"date":"2006-06-19T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/another-ball-travels-to-germany"},"modified":"2012-12-13T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:59:20","slug":"another-ball-travels-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/another-ball-travels-to-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Another ball travels to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantom Fouler reports from England that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2006280139,00.html\">according to an article in The Sun<\/a>, the ball which was used in the 1966 World Cup final is travelling to Germany for a few days. Apparently, its presence will &#8220;inspire England to victory over Sweden&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I thought that was Sven&#8217;s job, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> it&#8217;s true &#8212; the 1966 ball is here.<\/p>\n<p>I spotted it on the preview of the England v Sweden game on German TV. The host (whose name I&#8217;ve forgotten) was wearing gloves just to be near it. As you can see from the picture, the monstrously dull G\u00fcnter Netzer could hardly bear to even look at it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/hamburg\/ger_ham_66_ball.jpg\" style=\"width:360px;height:240px\" alt=\"The ball played with in the 1966 World Cup final\" \/><br \/>\nAn English talisman in Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantom Fouler reports from England that, according to an article in The Sun, the ball which was used in the 1966 World Cup final is travelling to Germany for a few days. Apparently, its presence will &#8220;inspire England to victory over Sweden&#8221;. Hmm, I thought that was Sven&#8217;s job, but we&#8217;ll see. UPDATE: it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-germany"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}