{"id":186403,"date":"2025-10-08T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:17:07","slug":"england-vs-wales-we-are-not-wembley-tourists-craig-bellamy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186403\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Wales: We are not Wembley tourists &#8211; Craig Bellamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales have not won against England at Wembley since 1977 when a Leighton James penalty sealed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/cvgj9v03357o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famous 1-0 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last encounter between the two nations saw England victorious with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/63603442\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 3-0 win at the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bellamy says he has not focused on the chance to make history but recognises the pride at stake in the fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t looked at it that way [but I&#8217;m] beyond proud,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And of course when that anthem goes and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;this is so good&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s be the best versions, but most importantly enjoy it and for myself to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We see England&#8217;s strengths, we see their weaknesses, and for us, it&#8217;s history we&#8217;re always aware of and always respectful of, but to us, it&#8217;s game by game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have not won against England at Wembley since 1977 when a Leighton James penalty sealed a famous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-186403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}