{"id":2447,"date":"2017-03-08T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2017-03-08T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:43:44","slug":"mom-hl-v-battersea-park-rangers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"MOM &#038; HL V BATTERSEA PARK RANGERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albion faced Battersea Park Rangers in the semi-final of the Frank Blunstone Cup, played over at Wimbledon Extension Pitches.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2448\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/297074_10150400648263690_2004645144_n.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2448\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/297074_10150400648263690_2004645144_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The absent Will Carlile : Trialling his new birthday bike<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite a spirited start, the Albion went 1 down around the 30<sup>th<\/sup> minute. This was quickly followed by a thunderbolt strike going in off the bar and a badly deflected shot spinning in off the post; meaning the Albion went in 3 down at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>The second half produced few chances of note and in the end BPR added a fourth to comprehensively seal the tie.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the heavy loss, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Man of the Match\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was divided between 3 defensive players \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which perhaps indicates the way the game went.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at right back, Marcus picked up a couple of votes for third and Jindy came in second with one extra.<\/p>\n<p>Out on his own\u00c2\u00a0on 5 was Matt, who takes his second MOM of the season. (Yes Woody did play this week but alas his run stopped).<\/p>\n<p>In the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Henri Leconte\u00e2\u20ac\u009d award there were a couple of solitary votes to Tom for arriving late and for BPR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153screaming midfielder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Chaz popped up with a couple of votes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=2351\">for recreating Jade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sensual massage on Woody (<\/a>insert your own innuendo here).<\/p>\n<p>The winner was Sean with 6 votes, who turned up with a jam jar filled with Lucozade and then tried to leave the ground without taking the kit, as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153forgot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albion faced Battersea Park Rangers in the semi-final of the Frank Blunstone Cup, played over at Wimbledon Extension Pitches. Despite a spirited start, the Albion went 1 down around the 30th minute. This was quickly followed by a thunderbolt strike going in off the bar and a badly deflected shot spinning in off the [&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\/2447"}],"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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}