{"id":1875,"date":"2013-01-09T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2013-01-09T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:08:04","slug":"albion-up-to-their-necks-in-it-mom-hl-v-westminster-wanderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"ALBION UP TO THEIR NECK&#8217;S IN IT&#8230;. MOM &#038; HL V WESTMINSTER WANDERERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the voting was so close and spread I needed to go back out and chase votes to try and give a clear winner, everyone voted with the exception of Rich \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leisure Suit Larry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pemberton who was otherwise occupied. Ultimately, this made little difference as all three positions were tied.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1877\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pb-110718-swamp-soccer2_photoblog900.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1877\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1877\" title=\"1793114f\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pb-110718-swamp-soccer2_photoblog900-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pb-110718-swamp-soccer2_photoblog900-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pb-110718-swamp-soccer2_photoblog900.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another fine aquaplane tackle from the Albion centre back&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In joint third were Don and Nick Milne with a vote a piece, in joint second were Will, Stew and Barny, finally\u00c2\u00a0in joint first were Rich and Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Henri Leconte was equally varied, although as usual we had the obligatory votes for Jade\u00c2\u00a0. Jade picked up a vote for the following pre-game sound bite (always one to lay down an early Henri Leconte contender), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lads, if we want to get through to the next round, we&#8217;ll have to win this game\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fault him for being wrong!<\/p>\n<p>This was followed up with a pre-shootout proclamation of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153its ok guys, I&#8217;ve got a feeling I&#8217;m going to save these pens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c got to love the man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confidence.<\/p>\n<p>And finally on the Jade front, there was a vote for Jade showing off his dribbling prowess and coming out of the box with the ball at his feet when he could have easily picked it up within the penalty box.<\/p>\n<p>This week saw a ridiculous amount of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Throw-in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d related nominations, the ref himself received votes for not being able to spot a fool throw and at other times giving a fool throw for nothing. However, my personal favourite was the vote for Nick Evans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 startling revelation that he still doesn&#8217;t know how to take a throw-in properly&#8230; or what makes a foul throw.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry too much Nick, you and ref can read all about them <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Throw-in\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s winner of Henri Leconte and I think a first time it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been a person, was the pitch. With more skid marks and bog than the inside of Jindy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pants after a lively Saturday night, the pitch was passed barely playable after a last minute consultation between both teams and referee.<\/p>\n<p>Related\u00c2\u00a0to this, there were also votes for Stewart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impression of the Swamp Thing and Nick Milne playing the whole match in moulds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the voting was so close and spread I needed to go back out and chase votes to try and give a clear winner, everyone voted with the exception of Rich \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leisure Suit Larry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pemberton who was otherwise occupied. Ultimately, this made little difference as all three positions were tied. In joint third were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}