{"id":4656,"date":"2022-10-22T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=252512"},"modified":"2022-10-22T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T08:50:01","slug":"i-dont-want-an-association-with-a-club-thats-managed-by-a-clown-kevin-pietersen-criticises-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-dont-want-an-association-with-a-club-thats-managed-by-a-clown-kevin-pietersen-criticises-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t want an association with a club that\u2019s managed by a clown,\u201d Kevin Pietersen criticises Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League football team Manchester United used a photo of former England captain Kevin Pietersen to help generate interest in the T20 World Cup, which is presently taking place in Australia. However, when Pietersen urged them to remove the post and criticised the team and its manager Erik ten Hag for the way they treated Cristiano Ronaldo, things got heated. Pietersen\u2019s statement caused the post to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s T20 World Cup. We\u2019ve welcomed cricketing legends, played at icc venues and met up with plenty of heroes over the years,\u201d Manchester United posted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/bjh78d28_manchester-united-_625x300_22_October_22.jpg\" alt=\"bjh78d28\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\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. That clown who no one will remember, needs a wake up!\u201d \u2013 Kevin commeneted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League football team Manchester United used a photo of former England captain Kevin Pietersen to help generate interest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[321,3257,1331,249],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-kevin-pietersen","tag-manchester-united"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}