{"id":413,"date":"2015-10-14T00:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:12:28","slug":"billys-blog-bournemouth-pre-match-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/14\/billys-blog-bournemouth-pre-match-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Bournemouth &#8211; Pre-match thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still pinching themselves.<\/p>\n<p>They play in our 1968 FA Cup winning shirts. Other things we have in common; Sylvain Distan, John Bond, Mel Machin and beating the Rags (FA Cup 1984, Harry Redknapp).<\/p>\n<p>Although the Cherries shouldn\u2019t be a banana skin we need to remember they are above Chelsea, \u201cBut most of the league is\u201d I hear you laugh.<\/p>\n<p>From 2009 the club has experienced a meteoric rise. When it looked like waving bye-bye to league football all together, now it resides in the top flight and 3000 Cherries can visit the superb City of Manchester Stadium, a sojourn that shall make Boscombe a ghost town.<\/p>\n<p>Although we have been saddled with (international) injuries; Aguero missing in action, Silva and the left-back position looking a bit dodgy, the opposition has its own share of damage to contend with but I trust we shall deliver our customary welcome and pit those Cherries.<\/p>\n<p>I was often called into service as Billy used to love cherries. He could spit a cherry stone further than anybody. I remember the \u2018ping\u2019 as it bounced off the unsuspecting defender\u2019s head and their incredulous \u2018what was that?\u2019 expression as he waltzed past. Priceless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\" alt=\"Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3\" width=\"80\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still pinching themselves. They play in our 1968 FA Cup winning shirts. Other things we have in common; Sylvain Distan, John Bond, Mel Machin and beating the Rags (FA Cup 1984, Harry Redknapp). Although the Cherries shouldn\u2019t be a banana skin we need to remember they are above Chelsea, \u201cBut most of the league is\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}