{"id":474810,"date":"2024-01-02T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474810"},"modified":"2024-01-02T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T21:25:51","slug":"james-milner-ties-ryan-giggs-for-second-in-most-pl-appearances","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/james-milner-ties-ryan-giggs-for-second-in-most-pl-appearances\/","title":{"rendered":"James Milner ties Ryan Giggs for second in most PL appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Milner has tied Ryan Giggs tally of 632 appearances in the Premier League after starting for Brighton against West Ham on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f\u2728 James Milner (37) has now made a Premier League appearance in 23 different years, equalling Ryan Giggs&#39; record. <\/p>\n<p>Incredible longevity at top level. Respect. \ud83d\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tbLqEWGrht\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tbLqEWGrht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurofootcom\/status\/1742275019269398912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Milner has been in England&#8217;s top flight ever since making his debut in 2002-03 with Leeds United, aged just 16.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has notched 3 Premier League titles in his career &#8211; two with Manchester City(2011-12 and 2013-14) and one with Liverpool(2019-20).<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Barry is the current leader with only 21 games more, meaning if Milner stays with Brighton for the next year he is well poised to overtake his former teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His energy is great and he can play for years. James&#8217; quality is clear but his energy, passion and attitude is more important.&#8221; manager Roberto de Zerbi said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s won everything in football, but if you watch him in training sessions, he is helping us to reach higher levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Milner has tied Ryan Giggs tally of 632 appearances in the Premier League after starting for Brighton against West Ham on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":474813,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22505],"acf":{"announce":"The experienced midfielder is neck-and-neck with the Man United's legend","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\/474810"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474812,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474810\/revisions\/474812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474810"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474810"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}