{"id":87789,"date":"2022-07-26T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sweden-fans-in-full-voice-in-sheffield-ahead-of-semi-final-showdown-with-england"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:19:58","slug":"sweden-fans-in-full-voice-in-sheffield-ahead-of-semi-final-showdown-with-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sweden-fans-in-full-voice-in-sheffield-ahead-of-semi-final-showdown-with-england","title":{"rendered":"Sweden fans in full voice in Sheffield ahead of semi-final showdown with England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden fans soak up the atmosphere at Devonshire Green (Issac Parkin\/PA) (PA Wire)Swedish football fans were outsinging their English counterparts as supporters began to gather in Sheffield ahead of the Euro 2022 semi-final.Division Street, in the city centre, was crammed with blue and yellow shirts as Sweden fans enjoyed a Yorkshire mixture of sunny spells and drizzle with songs accompanied by a relentless bass drum.England fans seemed to be leaving it a little later to begin their pre-match rituals but two fan parks in the city are expected to be crammed by kick-off at 8pm, with the match screened live on Devonshire Green.Around 1,500 Sweden fans are expected in Sheffield for the match.Sisters Caroline and Ida Gunnarsson, 24 and 17, were leading the partying outside the Frog and Parrot pub.Caroline said: &#8220;It amazing here. We are loving it.&#8220;The English people are just amazing.&#8221;Sweden fans soak up the atmosphere (Isaac Parkin\/PA) (PA Wire)Jonny Spence, 24, from Barnsley, said: &#8220;They&#8217;re outsinging us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish football fans were outsinging their English counterparts as supporters began to gather in Sheffield ahead of the Euro 2022 semi-final. Division Street, in the city centre, was crammed with<\/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":[1,141],"tags":[142,139,138,58,143],"class_list":["post-87789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uefa","tag-champions-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uefa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87789","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=87789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}