{"id":292050,"date":"2025-11-30T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:32:07","slug":"everton-unveil-bench-in-memory-of-former-footballer-gary-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292050\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton unveil bench in memory of former footballer Gary Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speed&#8217;s ex-teammate and Everton ambassador Graham Stuart added: &#8220;There will be trained mental health staff available at the bench and &#8211; every matchday moving forward &#8211; they will be around as a support system so that if anybody does feel the need to speak or learn about the support available, they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speed also played for Leeds United, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United, alongside 85 appearances for Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He became manager of the national squad in 2010 and is credited with kick-starting their rise, having taken them from an all-time low of 117th to 45th place in the world rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speed&#8217;s ex-teammate and Everton ambassador Graham Stuart added: &#8220;There will be trained mental health staff available at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292050","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=292050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}