{"id":372,"date":"2004-06-21T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=372"},"modified":"2006-10-08T07:11:20","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T07:11:20","slug":"370-of-the-french-the-english-the-croatian-and-the-swiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"[370] Of the French, the English, the Croatian and the Swiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France against Switzerland and England versus Croatia. I have no doubt that France and England will qualify.<\/p>\n<p>And good news, despite news that the Czech is fielding in a second team, according to &#8220;<em>Algemeen Dagblad<\/em> and <em>De Telegraaf<\/em> Rafael van der Vaart has called Tomas Galasek to ask (beg&#8230;) him and his Czech team-mates to please, please, please everything all they got in the Germany game. Galasek answered that the Czechs will absolutely not give the game away.&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccerpages.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=12270&#038;page=17&#038;pp=15\">Soccerpages<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I hope this is a start of a Dutch-Czech alliance as both teams don&#8217;t like the German. For the Dutch, it&#8217;s just the rivalry; for the Czech, it&#8217;s Euro 1996.<\/p>\n<p>1. Maybe I should be careful of what I write. Currently, Croatia is leading England by one goal. Halftime is approaching fast.<\/p>\n<p>2. Well, Scholes just scored for England. 1 &#8211; 1.<\/p>\n<p>3. France and England have qualified for the quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; the first ever civilian aircraft to reach the edge of space &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SpaceShipOne\">SpaceShipOne<\/a>. It happened earlier today. History is unfolding.<br \/>\npp\/s &#8211; wow. For Yahoo!, I am placed at number one for the search &#8220;Advocaat&#8221;. And wow, look at the traffic. Unbelievable. I am also on top of the list for &#8220;fuck Advocaat&#8221; on Dutch&#8217;s Altavista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France against Switzerland and England versus Croatia. I have no doubt that France and England will qualify. And good news, despite news that the Czech is fielding in a second team, according to &#8220;Algemeen Dagblad and De Telegraaf Rafael van der Vaart has called Tomas Galasek to ask (beg&#8230;) him and his Czech team-mates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}