{"id":186,"date":"2006-02-13T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-02-13T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T11:52:11","slug":"the-continuing-story-of-john-obi-mikel-a-footballer-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"The continuing story of john obi mikel, a footballer in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought this was an excellent article on the seemingly endless saga surrounding Nigerian footballer John Obi Mikel. It&#8217;s well structured and clearly thought out. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedrant.co.uk\/archives\/2006\/02\/dead_babies_1.html\">here<\/a><br \/>\nThe actions of the players&#8217; agents (if indeed they are that) certainly appear to be highly cynical. In particular, the attempted circumvention of binding arbitration from FIFA in favour of a Norwegian court ruling wasn&#8217;t helpful. It&#8217;s difficult to argue with the contention that the player himself could have sorted out this mess if he&#8217;d adopted a more direct approach with both clubs. Still, given the intrigue of death-threats, kidnappings etc., it&#8217;s easy to argue there were mitigating circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought this was an excellent article on the seemingly endless saga surrounding Nigerian footballer John Obi Mikel. It&#8217;s well structured and clearly thought out. Read it here The actions of the players&#8217; agents (if indeed they are that) certainly appear to be highly cynical. In particular, the attempted circumvention of binding arbitration from FIFA in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}