Players and fans denied visas, the spectre of ICE raids on stadiums, Pete Hegseth\u2019s latest speech … By the end of this contest, the nature of this US government will be even clearer<\/p>\n
Whenever my kids and I are stationary in the same room, within five minutes they will have started talking about football. Every now and then, a name will float out that I recognise \u2013 Jude Bellingham<\/a>, say \u2013 but most of the time it lacks the dramatic texture to hold my attention. Everyone is either a genius or an irretrievable loser.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of counting. \u201cWould you watch a play in which everyone was either entirely wise or entirely stupid and the rest of it was mainly a body count?\u201d I ask, trying to wedge myself back into the conversation. They reply: \u201cHello? Romeo and Juliet?!\u201d then go back to the shortcomings of La Liga, so I go back to looking at my phone.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Players and fans denied visas, the spectre of ICE raids on stadiums, Pete Hegseth\u2019s latest speech … By the end of this contest, the nature of this US government will be even clearer Whenever my kids and I are stationary in the same room, within five minutes they will have started talking about football. Every … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}