{"id":156001,"date":"2025-10-31T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156001\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:22:12","slug":"ireland-v-all-blacks-soldier-field-axels-death-rocked-us-but-there-was-that-connection-around-the-number-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156001\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v All-Blacks, Soldier Field: \u2018Axel\u2019s death rocked us, but\u00a0there was that connection around the number 8\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nGreg Feek recalls coming up with the famous figure of eight tribute to Anthony Foley in 2016 as he reflects on his time coaching Ireland and the All Blacks\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Farrell and Greg Feek before the 2016 game which started with the now famous figure of eight in honour of Anthony Foley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/467bfcaf-a5bc-45de-9734-b1cd0f2cbb72.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Andy Farrell and Greg Feek before the 2016 game which started with the now famous figure of eight in honour of Anthony Foley<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Greg Feek was nervous when he brought his idea to the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ahead of the first meeting between Ireland and New Zealand in Chicago, Joe Schmidt wanted to mark the recent death of Anthony Foley with some sort of tribute and tasked his coaches with coming up with ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Feek recalls coming up with the famous figure of eight tribute to Anthony Foley in 2016 as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-156001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115470882796622870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}