{"id":465752,"date":"2023-10-14T05:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465752"},"modified":"2023-10-14T05:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T09:11:14","slug":"henderson-boos-make-no-sense-says-england-manager-southgate","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/henderson-boos-make-no-sense-says-england-manager-southgate\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson boos &#8216;make no sense&#8217;, says England manager Southgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England manager Gareth Southgate said it made no sense to boo Jordan Henderson as the fans were obviously furious with the midfielder in the friendly against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson was named England captain for the match, with the 33-year-old, who joined a Saudi Arabian club earlier this year, playing 62 minutes. In the summer Henderson moved to Saudi Pro League side Al-Ettifaq from Liverpool on a three-year deal in July. The switch to Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is illegal, made headlines as Henderson has long been a supporter of LGBT people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Southgate: \u201cCan\u2019t understand why booing Henderson, a player with 79 caps for England\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis commitment and what he has delivered for England is exceptional. His role on and off the pitch is phenomenally important. Impossible to understand why they boo him\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GjzgcfZDrZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GjzgcfZDrZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1712948482430947346?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>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t understand it. He&#8217;s a player who has won 79 caps for England and his commitment and what he has delivered for England is exceptional,&#8221; Southgate told reporters. He&#8217;s a brilliant role model for all of the group in his professionalism and his approach. Some people deciding to boo, I really don&#8217;t understand what that is for. Come on &#8211; we play Italy on Tuesday and let&#8217;s get behind this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England manager Gareth Southgate said it made no sense to boo Jordan Henderson as the fans were obviously furious with the midfielder in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":465755,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,17832],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,20635],"acf":{"announce":"The midfielder moved to Saudi Arabia this summer, which angered a lot of English fans","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\/465752"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465766,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465752\/revisions\/465766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465752"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465752"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}