{"id":529352,"date":"2026-07-02T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:43:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-england-to-play-mexico-at-1am-on-monday-will-you-stay-up-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529352\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: England to play Mexico at 1am on Monday – will you stay up for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

School to show England match at 7ampublished at 13:00 BST<\/p>\n

13:00 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"BBC Radio 5 Live<\/p>\n

Let the children watch, or a good night’s sleep?<\/p>\n

Why not both? <\/p>\n

Malmesbury Primary School in Wiltshire are doing exactly that by opening up two hours early at 7am so their students can watch the match spoiler-free in full.<\/p>\n

Their head teacher Steve Heal told BBC Radio 5 Live: “We didn’t know what was going to happen last night so this plan has formed in our minds this morning.<\/p>\n

\n“Really we’re just going to invite the children to arrive at school at 7am if they’d like to, watch the match together in the school hall, we’ll give them a bit of breakfast, and we’ll be done by 9 o’clock in time to start school.<\/p>\n

“That way they’re not going to miss a night’s sleep and they’re not going to miss a morning of school and we’ll just ask their parents to not let them know what the result is if they’re coming in.” <\/p>\n

Asked if extra-time and penalties was a concern Mr Heal added: “We can skip over the gaps can’t we when we’re watching it on catch-up? But, we might not actually get started with our learning until 9:30. <\/p>\n

“As a one-off I’ll take the Thomas Tuchel route and write them a note making an excuse. It is the World Cup after all. I’m a bit of a Bill Shankly fan on this. Remember he said ‘football’s not a matter of life or death it’s more important than that’. <\/p>\n

\n“We’ll all enjoy it together, or, we’ll all cry on each others’ shoulders afterwards.”<\/p>\n

Listen to 5 Live Breakfast with the BBC Sounds app here<\/a>, or ask your smart speaker to ‘play 5 Live’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School to show England match at 7ampublished at 13:00 BST 13:00 BST BBC Radio 5 Live Let the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-529352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}