{"id":235947,"date":"2026-06-28T03:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235947"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:54:28","slug":"how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235947","title":{"rendered":"How one unnecessary rule change sucked the life out of World Cup groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we were to sum up this World Cup in four words it would be this: Football Finds A Way. Very much like Qatar 2022, it\u2019s almost impossible to avoid being drawn in by the quality and the excitement and the fun of the actual football itself&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/football-finds-a-way-world-cup-2026-success\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we were to sum up this World Cup in four words it would be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups.jpg",1600,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups.jpg",1600,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235947-how-one-unnecessary-rule-change-sucked-the-life-out-of-world-cup-groups-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}