{"id":1045605,"date":"2026-06-23T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1045605\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:12:19","slug":"england-vs-ghana-latest-as-partey-booed-but-three-lions-shake-his-hand-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1045605\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Ghana latest as Partey booed but Three Lions shake his hand | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jeremy Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>England fans are posing for photos alongside fans from Ghana before the game, enjoying the atmosphere despite the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Mark and Diane Hollinworth, both 56 and from Pontefract in West Yorkshire, enjoyed our 4-2 over Croatia in Dallas in the fanzone.<\/p>\n<p>Diane, a warehouse worker, spent five hours &#8216;watching the egg timer go around&#8217; to land two \u00a3500 tickets for today&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Mark, a Leeds Utd fan and HS2 machine driver, said: &#8220;The fanzone was great in Dallas but I am glad that we got tickets for this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diane, wearing a plastic poncho because of the rain, joked: &#8220;We got a tip that the tickets were going on sale and I watched the egg timer go around for five hours but I got them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dallas was brilliant, we stayed in Fort Worth and then went back to Florida, where we are on holiday for three weeks. So this is the big one for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a great start, and the heat can be unbearable so there is no doubt this weather is going to be an advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Oman, 54, from Accra, flew from Ghana to see their opening 1-0 victory over Panama and is staying close to the team in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>The lecturer and mechanical engineer has spent around \u00a31,300 on his tickets and up to $6,000 (\u00a34,550) on the trip overall. He said: &#8220;I have been planning this for two and a half years, so I think that it is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to have this experience in America. We are in Providence next to the team in Rhode Island so we get to see them walking around there and speak to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am an Arsenal fan so it means that I get to see Declan Rice play and I think it is going to be a great game. I love the Premier League.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jeremy Armstrong England fans are posing for photos alongside fans from Ghana before the game, enjoying the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1045606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[25910,12632,287618,2998,28828,287619,79,12117,6573,16,15,93214],"class_list":["post-1045605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-commentary","tag-england-football-team","tag-england-vs-ghana-live","tag-latest","tag-live-stream","tag-score-updates","tag-sports","tag-thomas-partey","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-cup-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}