{"id":1858,"date":"2012-12-13T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2012-12-13T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:19:06","slug":"slater-breaks-goal-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"SLATER BREAKS GOAL RECORD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Slater: 88 games and counting<\/p><\/div>\n

Will Slater has become the greatest ever non-scoring footballer in Albion history after going 88 games in a calendar year without scoring a goal.<\/p>\n

The left back smashed the 40-year old record on Sunday when he again failed to find the net in Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Surrey Cup encounter with Putney Lions.<\/p>\n

The football world was quick to pay tribute to Slater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record. Albion manager Jade Barker said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No player in the history of the club has struck terror into the hearts of his own fans when he runs in on goal like Slater. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the certainty that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to score that does it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Still you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to hand it to him \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 88 games is a hell of an achievement. Clearly he was never going to intentionally score, but as he closed in on the record the worry has always been that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d accidentally deflect something in and the run would be over.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Opposition defenders hailed the achievement: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can get the cigars out as soon as you see Slater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name on the team sheet. Nothing gives me more confidence that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to keep a clean sheet than him break into the box. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never played against anyone who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had less of an idea of what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing going forward.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Mystery surrounds the circumstances of Slater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last goal for the Albion. The last living witness, Harry Lawman, died earlier this year at the age of 113. Shortly before his death he recounted seeing Slater score when he attended an Albion game as a small child with his father. Lawman said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There was a melee in the six yard box. No-one could see a thing. Next thing the ball was in the net and some lanky streak of ginger piss is running away from goal with his arm in the air. It was pretty rubbish really. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not convinced he got the last touch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Slater has become the greatest ever non-scoring footballer in Albion history after going 88 games in a calendar year without scoring a goal. The left back smashed the 40-year old record on Sunday when he again failed to find the net in Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Surrey Cup encounter with Putney Lions. The football world was quick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}