{"id":26086,"date":"2022-06-24T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liverpool-and-manchester-united-heading-for-bangkok-at-a-big-cost"},"modified":"2022-06-24T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T11:00:43","slug":"liverpool-and-manchester-united-heading-for-bangkok-at-a-big-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liverpool-and-manchester-united-heading-for-bangkok-at-a-big-cost","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool and Manchester United heading for Bangkok &#8211; at a big cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Liverpool defender Phil Babb (left) and former Manchester United striker Andy Cole in Bangkok in March to announce the clubs&#8217; pre-season meeting.Pre-season tours are back next month, with Liverpool and Manchester United bringing a taste of north-west England to south-east Asia. &#8220;For this part of the world, these are the two single biggest football clubs &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t get anything bigger,&#8221; Marcus Luer, the CEO of Total Sports Asia, who brokered the deal to bring the teams to Thailand, says. &#8220;This is the biggest match ever in Asia &#8211; the revenue will be the highest in Asia.&#8221;The rivals meet in &#8216;The Match: Bangkok Century Cup&#8217; on 12 July at the Rajamangala Stadium, one of Asia&#8217;s iconic arenas, where the best way to arrive is to take a motorbike taxi from the closest station and weave in and out of the traffic in the Thai capital with thousands of fellow fans. If that offers a thrilling taste of Thai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-season tours are back next month, with Liverpool and Manchester United bringing a taste of north-west England to south-east Asia. &#8220;For this part of the world, these are the two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58,102],"class_list":["post-26086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}