{"id":6636,"date":"2012-05-21T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2012-05-21T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:53:09","slug":"two-completely-different-games-of-football-with-their-own-language-in-southern-town-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6636","title":{"rendered":"Two completely different games of football in Southern Town Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12052101.jpg\" alt=\"Two games of Football\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday I saw two completely different games of football happening at the same time in Southern Town Park. This was the weekend of the annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubwebsite.co.uk\/abingdonyouthfc01\">Abingdon Youth FC<\/a> Festival of Football. So on one side 150 teams, from age under 9 to under 15, were playing in a series or tournaments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12052103.jpg\" alt=\"Two games of Football\" \/><br \/>\nNearby over on the rugby pitches, American Football had started, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordsaints.com\/\">Oxford Saints<\/a> beat Gloucester Centurions 41-0. The Saints next host Bristol Apache at Abingdon RFC on Sunday 27th May.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12052107.jpg\" alt=\"Two games of Football\" \/><br \/>\nThey bring their own goalposts and vocabulary such as &#8220;<em>&#8230;the oxford Defence was generating turnovers through fumble recoveries&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; and <em>&#8220;&#8230; a brief spell of punt trading&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>&#8230;Jonny Dover tacked on his 3rd PAT out of 4&#8230;<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12052108.jpg\" alt=\"Two games of Football\" \/><br \/>\nBack at the Youth Football there was a replica FA Cup, and lots of stalls. On one stall there was a signed picture of the Chelsea team who have just won the UEFA Champions League on Saturday beating Bayern Munich on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>After this victory, the headline in the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung read &#8220;<em>How much bad luck fits into one match?&#8221;<\/em>. The Gazzetta dello Sport reported on the temporary \u00a0Chelsea Manager Di Matteo saying <em>&#8220;Two and a half months at the helm were sufficient to initiate a series of miracles&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In The Guardian we read of &#8220;<em>The Great Escape<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I saw two completely different games of football happening at the same time in Southern Town Park. This was the weekend of the annual\u00a0Abingdon Youth FC Festival of Football. So on one side 150 teams, from age under 9 to under 15, were playing in a series or tournaments. Nearby over on 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":[],"class_list":["post-6636","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\/6636","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=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}