{"id":11738,"date":"2022-10-22T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=252466"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:40:31","slug":"cricketer-kevin-pietersen-lashes-out-at-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/cricketer-kevin-pietersen-lashes-out-at-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricketer Kevin Pietersen lashes out at Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England cricket legend Kevin Pietersen is not happy with how the club are treating Cristiano Ronaldo and showed his rage in the comments section over an Instagram post by Manchester United that featured him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former English Cricketer Kevin Pietersen tells Man United IG acc to take his picture down after they disrespected Cristiano \ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HKuq04XOft\">pic.twitter.com\/HKuq04XOft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 fan (@NoodleHairCR7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoodleHairCR7\/status\/1583502609645641734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils posted pictures of the legends they have welcomed at the Theatre of Dreams over the past few years including Kevin as the T20 world cup was around the corner. A\u00a0 furious Pietersen was quick to reply \u201cPlease take my picture down? I don\u2019t want an association with a club that\u2019s managed by a clown who is completely disrespecting the greatest footballer of our time! @cristiano is the BOSS. The clown who no one will ever remember, needs to wake up!\u201d. The post was then taken down by the Manchester United official Instagram handlers.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a lot of controversies surrounding Ronaldo this season and people are divided on who to blame, the club or the player. Nonetheless, the cricketer who is an avid fan of Cristiano has chosen his stance publicly in a crystal clear way and is not happy with Erik Ten Hag, who he seems to have called a \u201cclown\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Pietersen commented that he does not want an \u201cassociation\u201d with a club that disrespected Ronaldo on an Instagram post that tagged him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":34207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3181,321,3257,1331,249,2914],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-cristiano","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-kevin-pietersen","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-fc"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}