{"id":56,"date":"2010-04-25T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-04-25T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:08:08","slug":"abingdon-united-manager-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon United Manager Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10042501.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Slater is clapped by his team\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon United Manager, Andy Slater, was clapped off the field by his team after the last game of the season against Yate Town&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Andy Slater was kitted out as number 17 in order to make a brief appearance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10042505.jpg\" alt=\"players argue with the referee\" \/><br \/>\nI spoke to the Abingdon Herald photographer before the game to get some tips. He said the goals are not always the best thing. It is the aggro and attitude and drama you need to capture. In this first picture I unfortunately just missed the Yate Town player kicking the ball directly at the referee after a contested penalty award.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10042504.jpg\" alt=\"a diving golakeeper cannot stop the ball\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon United scored their one goal from the penalty spot. Unfortunately Yate Town scored two.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10042509.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Slater\" \/><br \/>\nSo even though Andy Slater did not win this one, he has had a successful 7 years in charge during which time the club rose to win promotion from the Hellenic League, and have consolidated their place in the Southern League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon United Manager, Andy Slater, was clapped off the field by his team after the last game of the season against Yate Town&#8230; Andy Slater was kitted out as number 17 in order to make a brief appearance. I spoke to the Abingdon Herald photographer before the game to get some tips. He said the [&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":[185,254],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-abingdon-united","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}