A ball and a field<\/p>\n
From weeping and cheering
\nfrom street to stadium
\nfrom winter to summer
\nand from dawn til dusk,
\nthis game connects and shares in all
\na care to care for each and everyone of us.<\/p>\n
Love it or hate it
\nwin or lose
\na passion for fighting
\njoining in and joining up
\nplaying up and playing out
\nwith an agreed set of rules,
\na spending of energy
\nand release of tension
\nwhere the battle is safe
\nand the guns shoot compassion
\nwhere I share my street
\nand shoot to kill mistrust and fear
\nand die for the love of the game,
\nwhere the pain of loss can be quietly loved
\nand the joy of triumph tossed high above
\nwhilst one holds respect for the other and vice versa
\nthe other for the one.. <\/p>\n
the one spirit of football
\nthe one love
\na ball and a field
\na sword and a shield
\nthis one’s for you
\nthis one’s for me<\/p>\n
be proud and humble
\nsteady and stumble
\nplay on
\nplay out
\nplay with and without
\nplay it
\ndown and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A ball and a field<\/p>\n
From weeping and cheering
\nfrom street to stadium
\nfrom winter to summer
\nand from dawn til dusk,
\nthis game connects and shares in all
\na care to care for each and everyone of us.<\/p>\n
Love it or hate it
\nwin or lose
\na passion for fighting
\njoining in and joining up
\nplaying up and playing out
\nwith an agreed set of rules,
\na spending of energy
\nand release of tension
\nwhere the battle is safe
\nand the guns shoot compassion
\nwhere I share my street
\nand shoot to kill mistrust and fear
\nand die for the love of the game,
\nwhere the pain of loss can be quietly loved
\nand the joy of triumph tossed high above
\nwhilst one holds respect for the other and vice versa
\nthe other for the one.. <\/p>\n
the one spirit of football
\nthe one love
\na ball and a field
\na sword and a shield
\nthis one’s for you
\nthis one’s for me<\/p>\n
be proud and humble
\nsteady and stumble
\nplay on
\nplay out
\nplay with and without
\nplay it
\ndown and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}