{"id":33485,"date":"2026-08-11T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/can-spain-stop-messi-and-have-fifa-gone-too-far-with-half-time-show-football-daily\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:21:04","slug":"can-spain-stop-messi-and-have-fifa-gone-too-far-with-half-time-show-football-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/can-spain-stop-messi-and-have-fifa-gone-too-far-with-half-time-show-football-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Spain stop Messi and have FIFA gone TOO far with half-time show? | Football Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vY-xe_CYQ_s?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The World Cup final is almost here, and Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith are joined by John Murray and Chris Sutton to debate the biggest talking points before football&#8217;s biggest game.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone stop Lionel Messi? Has the refereeing been good enough throughout the tournament? Does a Super Bowl-style half-time show belong at a World Cup final? And why is Chris convinced Americans genuinely mean it when they tell you to &#8220;have a good day&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Rick and Lloyd give their first impressions after arriving in New York ahead of the final.<\/p>\n<p>Follow more on the BBC Sport app, iPlayer and Sounds.<\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p>Find us here: <\/p>\n<p>Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCMOTD<br \/>\nX: https:\/\/x.com\/BBCMOTD<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcfootball\/<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bbcsport<\/p>\n<p>#bbcfootball<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vY-xe_CYQ_s\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup final is almost here, and Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith are joined by John Murray and Chris Sutton to debate the biggest talking points before football&#8217;s biggest game. Can anyone stop Lionel Messi? Has the refereeing been good enough throughout the tournament? Does a Super Bowl-style half-time show belong at a World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33487,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33485\/revisions\/33487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}