{"id":508,"date":"2015-12-07T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2015-12-12T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T00:31:07","slug":"billys-blog-post-stoke-welcome-to-the-prussians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/billys-blog-post-stoke-welcome-to-the-prussians\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Blog, &#8211; Post-Stoke &#038; welcome to the Prussians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disappointed? Stoke scored two very good goals and it\u2019s so easy to blame the defence singling out a certain absentee as the cause but for me, well, we didn\u2019t score and never looked likely to. Caused by another absentee? Shouldn\u2019t be the case and our defence starts with the forward line, that\u2019s where we need to do something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive us a B, give us an O&#8230;\u201d humorous chant by City fans in the past for a club with one of the longest names Borussia VfL 1900 M\u00f6nchengladbach e.V. The German club holds first, second and third goal-scoring records in the Bundesliga but qualified for this competition by finishing third. Third again in Europe is the best they can do tonight but for us to finish top we must beat them and pray that The Old Lady gets it tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine going wrong in that spelling out the name chant and needing to start again. \u201cGive us an&#8230;er, where were we up to? &#8230; Er, shit&#8230;er&#8230; shit&#8230; Give us a B&#8230;\u201d<\/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>Disappointed? Stoke scored two very good goals and it\u2019s so easy to blame the defence singling out a certain absentee as the cause but for me, well, we didn\u2019t score and never looked likely to. Caused by another absentee? Shouldn\u2019t be the case and our defence starts with the forward line, that\u2019s where we need [&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-508","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\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/513"}],"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=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}