{"id":16705,"date":"2016-07-14T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16705"},"modified":"2016-07-14T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:28:00","slug":"abingdon-town-fc-is-this-the-end-of-oxfordshires-oldest-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16705","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Town FC &#8211; Is this the end of Oxfordshire&#8217;s Oldest Club?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16071410.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Town FC\" \/><br \/>\nThere are rumours that Abingdon Town FC have folded, as they had not re-registered in the North Berks League this season, and the grass is  not cut at a time when most teams are playing friendlies before the start of a new season.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16071409.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Town FC\" \/><br \/>\nThe club were founded in 1870, making it the oldest club in Oxfordshire. Until recently they were playing in the semi-professional Isthmian League and the Hellenic League Premier division. <\/p>\n<p>Their Culham Road ground often floods, repeatedly causing damage to floodlights and pitch and buildings. Two years ago they relegated themselves to the North Berks League, to make ends meet. So it could be that has not helped contain costs, and they have called it a day. But we will see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16071411.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Town FC\" \/><br \/>\nFor more on what could have been Abingdon Town FC&#8217;s last match read Laurence Reade&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/laurencereade.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/08\/fade-out\/\">Fade Out<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumours that Abingdon Town FC have folded, as they had not re-registered in the North Berks League this season, and the grass is not cut at a time when most teams are playing friendlies before the start of a new season. The club were founded in 1870, making it the oldest club in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}