{"id":11078,"date":"2025-05-11T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/?p=11078"},"modified":"2025-05-11T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:40:33","slug":"to-the-mancs-tonight-welcome-to-hellthere-were-many-banners-greeting-manchester-united-as-they-arrived-in-istanbul-some-said-it-would-be-their-last-48-hours-alive-others-said-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/?p=11078","title":{"rendered":"To the MANCS tonight \u201cWelcome to Hell\u201dThere were many banners greeting Manchester United as they arrived in Istanbul. Some said it would be their last 48 hours alive. Others said: &#034;RIP Manchester&#034;. The most famous proclaimed: &#034;Welcome to Hell&#034;.Nearly two decades on, Manchester United&#039;s goalless draw against Galatasaray still resonates. It is not just because they are back in Istanbul today, preparing to face the same opponents, albeit in a different stadium to the Ali Sami Yen, which in November 1993 created the single most intimidating atmosphere Sir Alex Ferguson says he has ever endured."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/404609774_329368139953099_1481266030308067667_n.jpg\" alt=\"To the MANCS tonight \u201cWelcome to Hell\u201dThere were many banners greeting Manchester United as they arrived in Istanbul. Some said it would be their last 48 hours alive. Others said: &#034;RIP Manchester&#034;. The most famous proclaimed: &#034;Welcome to Hell&#034;.Nearly two decades on, Manchester United&#039;s goalless draw against Galatasaray still resonates. It is not just because they are back in Istanbul today, preparing to face the same opponents, albeit in a different stadium to the Ali Sami Yen, which in November 1993 created the single most intimidating atmosphere Sir Alex Ferguson says he has ever endured.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-swoosh0018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11080,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions\/11080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoosh0018.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}