{"id":688287,"date":"2026-07-12T22:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688287\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:17:05","slug":"always-seems-to-be-drinking-roy-keane-ian-wright-gary-neville-react-to-sour-grapes-from-erling-haalands-father-as-alf-inge-claims-referee-rob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688287\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Always seems to be drinking\u2019 &#8211; Roy Keane, Ian Wright &#038; Gary Neville react to \u2018sour grapes\u2019 from Erling Haaland\u2019s father as Alf Inge claims referee \u2018robbed\u2019 Norway against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neville, another United legend, joined the chorus of disapproval regarding Norway&#8217;s complaints, contrasting this match with previous England performances. &#8220;No, I didn\u2019t think it was a game where, as an England fan, that I thought we were lucky because of the referee. I thought against Ghana we were lucky, when Ezri Konsa\u2019s penalty wasn\u2019t given, and that\u2019s when you are lucky, when you think you\u2019ve got away with one,&#8221; the former defender noted.<\/p>\n<p>Wright further dismantled Norway&#8217;s excuses by pointing out their tactical failings over the 90 minutes, saying: &#8220;If their goalkeeper had an unbelievable game, a blinder, this and that, doesn\u2019t make that mistake\u2026 if [Alexander] Sorloth squares it, they\u2019re 2-0 up before half-time, you\u2019re not saying none of this! They lost this game because they made mistakes in that game. It\u2019s not because of the referee, the ball hitting the wire or whatever else they\u2019re saying. Foolishness!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neville, another United legend, joined the chorus of disapproval regarding Norway&#8217;s complaints, contrasting this match with previous England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[229185,309,229400,59,229399,4160,88934,101,56,54,55,6526],"class_list":["post-688287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-e-haaland","tag-england","tag-g-neville","tag-gb","tag-i-wright","tag-norway","tag-r-keane","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688287","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=688287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}