This was not the first game where boos have been at the hydration break, and the wave of dislike for them among fans appears to be gathering momentum.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, during Norway’s match against Iraq in Boston, the pause in play was greeted by boos from the crowd, with the temperature a more than manageable 23C at the time.<\/p>\n
It was goalless just before the break but Iraq conceded four minutes after play resumed, and went on to lose 4-1.<\/p>\n
There were loud boos for the pause during Sweden’s 5-1 thrashing of Tunisia on Monday and Spain’s goalless draw with Cape Verde on the same day, with that game played in the air-conditioned Atlanta Stadium.<\/p>\n
And after England’s win against Croatia, the first hydration break during the match between Ghana and Panama was also greeted by jeers.<\/p>\n
The hydration breaks have effectively turned games into four quarters rather than two halves, a concern for some of those England supporters who booed the break.<\/p>\n
“It is like the Americanisation of football here,” said one.<\/p>\n
“It is turning the game into quarters and I don’t love it. I get why people were booing and I was one of them.”<\/p>\n
But some supporters do think there are benefits to them.<\/p>\n
“I think they are badly marketed,” said another fan.<\/p>\n
“If they were not called a hydration break, and were called a relief break then everyone doesn’t miss a goal. <\/p>\n
“I think we have to think about it in a new way, corporate [bodies] get what they want, we get what we want and everyone is happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was not the first game where boos have been at the hydration break, and the wave of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-744291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}