{"id":2090,"date":"2017-09-05T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2017-09-05T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:45:37","slug":"alli-clarifies-middle-finger-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/alli-clarifies-middle-finger-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"England’s Dele Alli Clarifies His Middle Finger Gesture!"},"content":{"rendered":"

England’s midfielder, Dele Alli has clarified his middle finger gesture. He claims that the middle finger gesture was not meant for the referee. The camera caught him while he made a middle finger gesture. However, according to Dele Alli, it was just a joke, and he did not mean any harm to anyone.<\/p>\n

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Dele Alli Explains The Middle Finger Gesture!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alli insisted that the middle finger gesture was for his friend, Kyle walker and not for the match referee. The incident took place during Englands 2-1 win over Slovakia. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Dele Alli could find himself in serious trouble as a breach of disciplinary action because it looked like the gesture was towards the match referee. England defeated Slovakia 2-1 in the World Cup Qualifying round.<\/p>\n

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In a conference,\u00a0Gareth Southgate clarified that the indication was towards his former Tottenham team-mate, Kyle Walker. Alli took to Twitter to second\u00a0Gareth Southgate’s statement. He tweeted the following:<\/p>\n

“Just to clarify, the gesture tonight was a joke between me and my good friend Kyle Walker! Apologies for any offence caused! Great win 2nite.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

With that, it is clear that it was just a friendly joke between two people. England defeated Slovakia 2-1 with\u00a0Eric Dier and Marcus Rashford’s goals. Now they have two games to go in their Group F matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England’s midfielder, Dele Alli has clarified his middle finger gesture. He claims that the middle finger gesture was not meant for the referee. The camera caught him while he made a middle finger gesture. However, according to Dele Alli, it was just a joke, and he did not mean any harm to anyone. Alli insisted …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1345],"tags":[2269,1572,2270,2272,2271,2168],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-football-news","tag-dele-alli","tag-england","tag-gareth-southgate","tag-kyle-walker","tag-slovakia","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}