{"id":6,"date":"2002-03-25T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-25T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2012-12-05T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T22:41:57","slug":"opening-match-first-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/03\/25\/opening-match-first-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Match – First Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>
\nApproximately 36 players and one dog gave their all in a thrilling encounter<\/p>\n

The Light Shirts played the Dark Shirts in a hard fought encounter on a sunny afternoon in Battersea Park. Final score was Lights 6, Darks 4<\/b>. These are some pics taken by Caz that capture some of the elation and despair of this 10-goal thriller. Read the match report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"Chris<\/a>2 goals and a constant threat – Chris’s physics-defying second goal curling in from the byline had to be the moment of the afternoon<\/p>\n

\"Sir<\/a>Lights star Sir Tom “Tommy” Thomas gave a breathtaking display of old skool skill, but the warm spring sunshine on his moustache wax reduced his effectiveness in the second half.<\/p>\n

\"Goalmouth<\/a>The Darks survived many goal mouth scrambles, but in the end, confusion over who was actually in goal cost them a penalty ably converted by Phil.<\/p>\n

\"Lights<\/a>Lights keeper and Moet & Chandon Man of the Match Ben marred a gritty performance between the sticks with some suicidal ball distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>
\nApproximately 36 players and one dog gave their all in a thrilling encounter<\/p>\n

The Light Shirts played the Dark Shirts in a hard fought encounter on a sunny afternoon in Battersea Park. Final score was Lights 6, Darks 4<\/b>. These are some pics taken by Caz that capture some of the elation and despair of this 10-goal thriller. Read the match report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england"],"geo":{"latitude":51.47804260000000198260750039480626583099365234375,"longitude":-0.1597523999999999888554924609707086347043514251708984375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}