{"id":1770,"date":"2007-01-07T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/01\/crystal_palace\/"},"modified":"2007-01-07T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T20:00:13","slug":"crystal_palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/crystal_palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace v Swindon Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/349357200\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/148\/349357200_b7af054114.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" alt=\"Crystal Palace v Swindon Town, FA Cup Third Round\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe went to watch this <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/fa_cup\/6213901.stm\">epic<\/a><\/em> third round FA Cup tie yesterday afternoon. I&#8217;d not been to Selhurst Park before. It&#8217;s obviously a ground (and a club) that&#8217;s seen better days. When we got to the visiting fans ticket booth there was a largish queue and not a lot happening. It seemed that there was a shortage of tickets. Not a shortage of actual space &#8211; there were only just over 10,000 people in a ground with a capacity of over 26,000. No, they hadn&#8217;t actually printed enough tickets to sell to people. In other words, they&#8217;d underestimated the number of Swindonians who&#8217;d actually bother to show up.<br \/>\nSadly, the game was disappointing, with Palace quickly going a goal up. Swindon had a few opportunities, but by now the heavens had really opened and the game was becoming literally bogged down, although the pitch did hold up well.<br \/>\nPalace got a second and it looked unlikely that Swindon could mount a comeback. But with less then ten minutes to go, they got one, and there was a bit of a scramble to try and find an equaliser.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/349357771\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/349357771_0c8401191b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" alt=\"Crystal Palace v Swindon Town, FA Cup Third Round\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t to come, but the performance hadn&#8217;t been bad and fans around me, who&#8217;d been in good voice throughout, were relatively upbeat.<br \/>\nWe went on to a pub to watch the Liverpool v Arsenal game, featuring two great goals from Tomas Rosicky and a fabulous individual effort from Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to watch this epic third round FA Cup tie yesterday afternoon. I&#8217;d not been to Selhurst Park before. It&#8217;s obviously a ground (and a club) that&#8217;s seen better days. When we got to the visiting fans ticket booth there was a largish queue and not a lot happening. It seemed that there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}