{"id":29731,"date":"2017-11-12T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29731"},"modified":"2017-11-12T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T18:11:52","slug":"shay-given-i-had-a-couple-of-big-saves-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/12\/shay-given-i-had-a-couple-of-big-saves-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Shay Given: I had a couple of big saves against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBLIN, <strong>Shay Given remembers Republic of Ireland having to overcome 100,000 Iranian fans the last time they qualified for a World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Ireland team that beat Iran to book a place at the 2002 finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not sleep the night before the match in Tehran. I\u2019m still awake at 4 o\u2019clock in the morning so I had to go and see Mick Byrne, the physio and get a sleeping tablet off him. He gave me two sleeping tablets. I just couldn\u2019t sleep,\u201d Given told the Irish Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe harder I tried, the worse I was getting and then the walk in the morning got binned and then I woke up at lunchtime or something for pre-match but the atmosphere out there [in Tehran], they were out there five hours before the game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn two matches against Iran, I\u2019d a couple of big saves especially one in the second half of the first leg down to my left and then I think after about 70 minutes out there [in Tehran], there were 100,000 men, it was like a mad atmosphere. There might\u2019ve been only 100 Irish fans there and it was basically the noise we were making on the pitch,\u201d the former Newcastle United goalie concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBLIN, Shay Given remembers Republic of Ireland having to overcome 100,000 Iranian fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2985,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}