{"id":52,"date":"2006-06-07T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T07:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/a-cracking-good-game"},"modified":"2012-12-13T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:25:06","slug":"a-cracking-good-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/a-cracking-good-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A cracking good game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/belgium\/bel_ypres_kvk_crack.jpg\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" alt=\"The sponsors of KVK Ieper\" \/><br \/>\nThe Crack<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A kickabout in Ypres\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BscyW1bzer8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>An impromptu kickabout with some kids we ran into in Ypres.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/videos\/a-kickabout-in-ypres\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, we did eventually manage to have a bit of a knock-about in Ieper, but not the full-scale game that we had hoped for. Instead, we found Glyn, Peter and Matthieu playing keepie-uppie in the field next to our campsite. As so often happens when it&#8217;s underway, The Ball quickly became a source of fascination and a little puzzlement. Once we&#8217;d explained what it was all about, Phil and I donned our KVK Ieper shirts and joined in the kickabout.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/belgium\/bel_ypres_kids_teamshot.jpg\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" alt=\"The teamshot\" \/><br \/>\nThe Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crack Well, we did eventually manage to have a bit of a knock-about in Ieper, but not the full-scale game that we had hoped for. Instead, we found Glyn, Peter and Matthieu playing keepie-uppie in the field next to our campsite. As so often happens when it&#8217;s underway, The Ball quickly became a source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-video"],"geo":{"latitude":50.84589390000000008740244084037840366363525390625,"longitude":2.89588450000000019457502276054583489894866943359375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}