{"id":8557,"date":"2026-07-17T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=8557"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:43:47","slug":"games-inbox-are-you-playing-ea-sports-fc-more-because-of-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=8557","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Are you playing EA Sports FC more because of the World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg><title>Close Overlay<\/title><use xlink:href=\"#common-close\" href=\"#common-close\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h4>In The Mixer\u2019s World Cup special<\/h4>\n<p>Everything you need to know about the World Cup \u2013 England updates, the games to watch and stories you missed \u2013 in five minutes, at 1pm, every day.<\/p>\n<form class=\"newsletter-signup\" data-location=\"football-newsletter-in-the-mixer\/overlay\" data-id=\"football-newsletter-in-the-mixer\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<label for=\"newsletter-signup__football-newsletter-in-the-mixer\/overlay_mm\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmail\t\t\t<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__field newsletter-signup__field--checkbox newsletter-signup__agree\">\n\t\t\t<label for=\"newsletter-signup__football-newsletter-in-the-mixer\/overlay_agree\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<svg><title>I agree to receive newsletters from Metro<\/title><use xlink:href=\"#common-check\" href=\"#common-check\"\/><\/svg>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tI agree to receive newsletters from Metro\t\t\t<\/label><\/p><\/div>\n<p><button type=\"submit\" class=\"metro-button metro-button_sign-up \"><span>Sign Up<\/span><svg><title>Sign Up<\/title><use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<\/form><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close Overlay In The Mixer\u2019s World Cup special Everything you need to know about the World Cup \u2013 England updates, the games to watch and stories you missed \u2013 in five minutes, at 1pm, every day. Email I agree to receive newsletters from Metro I agree to receive newsletters from Metro Sign UpSign Up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SEI_300733225-aa56_1784246423.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&h=630&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}