{"id":1785,"date":"2010-05-11T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/the-beautiful-game\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:15:30","slug":"the-beautiful-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/the-beautiful-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Competition closed.<\/strong> Now I&#8217;m not *really* a football fan. I have a team I support (Chelsea, since you ask) and I do watch the World Cup &#8211; when England are in it. I love having a big barbecue with the whole family and settling down to watch a big game and saying in the middle &#8216;what&#8217;s the offside rule?&#8217; and &#8216;which team is winning?&#8217; (Just to annoy the males, obviously. I understand it really *cough*)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Of course the rest of my family are actually proper footie fanatics &#8211; No 1 Son has even been a mascot at Stamford Bridge &#8211;\u00a0so this summer I imagine we&#8217;ll be spending a lot of time in front of the box.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re thinking of getting a new TV then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/partner\/Argos.aspx?t=lwk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Argos<\/a> \u00a0have the most amazing competition on at the moment. They&#8217;re offering the chance to win \u00a35000 worth of goodies including TVs, laptops, games consoles, sofa and BBQ, plus lots of footie stuff!\u00a0 To find out more about how you could win simply click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtruck.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/5\/Footballboy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And not only that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KidStart<\/a> are giving everyone who shops at any of their retailers between now and 11 June the chance to win a 42&#8243; LG LCD TV from Argos worth over \u00a31000! To find out more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/partner\/Argos.aspx?t=lwk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. 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