{"id":465637,"date":"2023-10-13T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465637"},"modified":"2023-10-13T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:42:05","slug":"southgate-fa-tried-to-make-best-choice","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/southgate-fa-tried-to-make-best-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Southgate: \u2018FA tried to make best choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FA has &#8220;tried to make the best resolution with good aims&#8221; over tributes to those who have died in Israel and Gaza, according to England head coach Gareth Southgate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sec of State Lucy Frazer \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d by FA decision not to light up Wembley arch after \u201chorrific terrorist attacks in Israel\u201d.<br \/>\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate has defended FA decision to have black armbands &amp; period of silence<br \/>\n\u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKKpjT9mOr\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/GKKpjT9mOr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cIKtpInIpJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cIKtpInIpJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Roan (@danroan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danroan\/status\/1712715274481197251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Footballers will wear black armbands during today\u2019s clash against Australia at Wembley, and a period of silence will be held in order to respect all the innocent people who have died so far during the escalation of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The Football Association decided not to light up the England national stadium with the colors of the Israeli flag. However, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport disagreed with that choice and labeled it &#8220;disappointing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the FA lit Wembley&#8217;s arch in blue and yellow colors in support of Ukraine after the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FA has &#8220;tried to make the best resolution with good aims&#8221; over tributes to those who have died in Israel and Gaza, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465638,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21389,19612],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19613,1402],"acf":{"announce":"Gareth spoke on the Israel-Gaza tribute by the FA.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465640,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465637\/revisions\/465640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465637"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465637"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}