{"id":438536,"date":"2022-12-09T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=438536"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:52:42","slug":"england-and-france-fans-eye-world-cup-glory-as-quarter-final-tie-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/england-and-france-fans-eye-world-cup-glory-as-quarter-final-tie-looms","title":{"rendered":"England and France fans eye World Cup glory as quarter-final tie looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England and France fans both say they are feeling confident of glory as they prepare for the World Cup quarter-final showdown.The two giants of European football will meet at the Al Bayt Stadium on Saturday evening, with Morocco or Portugal facing the winner in the semi-finals on December 14.Thousands of England fans will cheer on the Three Lions in Al Khor and millions more back home are expected to watch on TV, with pubs and bars readying themselves for another bumper evening.England will be hoping to land an early blow on Saturday morning when their supporters&#8217; team play a seven-a-side game against their French counterparts.France supporter Julien Abbassi, from Paris, was spotted in Doha wearing a hat with a plastic baguette attached to it.He said he felt confident ahead of the quarter-final tie and showed off his France flag containing three stars &#8211; two for the World Cups that Les Bleus have already won, and one in anticipation of victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England and France fans both say they are feeling confident of glory as they prepare for the World Cup quarter-final showdown. The two giants of European football will meet at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438536","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=438536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}