{"id":597,"date":"2023-11-13T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/?p=597"},"modified":"2023-11-13T19:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:04:04","slug":"england-legend-sir-bobbys-funeral-takes-place-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/2023\/11\/13\/england-legend-sir-bobbys-funeral-takes-place-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"England legend Sir Bobby&#8217;s funeral takes place in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many in Manchester have gathered today to attend the funeral of &#8220;one of the finest footballers this country has ever produced&#8221; according to Manchester United, Sir Bobby Charlton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The England footballer died on October 21 aged 86, following an accidental fall at a nursing home in Knutsford, an inquest heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He played over 600 games for Manchester United, scoring just under 200 goals &#8211; and also played 106 times representing England in the 1966 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some well known faces paid their respects today such as Sir Gary Lineker and Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club said: &#8220;The Charlton family and Manchester United would like to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and respect towards Sir Bobby.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many in Manchester have gathered today to attend the funeral of &#8220;one of the finest footballers this country has ever produced&#8221; according to Manchester United, Sir Bobby Charlton. The England footballer died on October 21 aged 86, following an accidental fall at a nursing home in Knutsford, an inquest heard. He played over 600 games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,33],"tags":[134,155,156,111],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sport-2","tag-england","tag-footballer","tag-manchester","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}