{"id":560131,"date":"2023-01-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=560131"},"modified":"2023-01-23T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:34:29","slug":"on-this-day-in-2018-phil-neville-s-reign-as-england-boss-off-to-fiery-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/on-this-day-in-2018-phil-neville-s-reign-as-england-boss-off-to-fiery-start","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 2018: Phil Neville&#8217;s reign as England boss off to fiery start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Neville was appointed England manager on this day in 2018 and immediately faced criticism for old tweets featuring sexist jokes. The Football Association handed the former Manchester United full-back his first permanent role in management after sacking predecessor Mark Sampson the previous September due to &#8220;unacceptable behaviour&#8221; during his time at Bristol City. Neville signed a contract until the end of the home European Championship in 2021. Our @Lionesses have a new leader. Congratulations, @fizzer18 ! &#129409; https:\/\/t.co\/91FZIw28fQ &#8212; England (@England) January 23, 2018 A mixed reaction met the appointment due to Neville&#8217;s lack of experience in women&#8217;s football and his historic sexist tweets. Neville was forced to close his Twitter account after old tweets about women &#8220;preparing breakfast&#8221; or &#8220;making beds&#8221; were discovered alongside a joke about his wife. He would go on to guide England to fourth place at the 2019 World Cup after a semi-final defeat by the United States. View this post on Instagram A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Neville was appointed England manager on this day in 2018 and immediately faced criticism for old tweets featuring sexist jokes.The Football Association handed the former Manchester United full-back his<\/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-560131","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\/560131","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=560131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}