{"id":947,"date":"2004-12-06T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T11:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/12\/fa_cup_ground_s\/"},"modified":"2004-12-06T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T11:18:58","slug":"fa_cup_ground_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/fa_cup_ground_s\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup Ground Switching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Yealding have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/fa_cup\/4071255.stm\">decided<\/a> that they should try to hold their FA Cup tie against Newcastle at their home ground after all. A couple of years ago there was the farcical situation where Farnborough decided that they&#8217;d prefer to play their tie against Arssenal at Highbury instead of at home. Of course they lost since they were playing on a surface which was closer to a billiard table than any of them had every come across before. Arsenal fans outnumbered their &#8220;home&#8221; fans. And a general mockery was made.<br \/>\nThe FA can now throw out any club that switches the venue for anything other than safety grounds. And they can&#8217;t go to the opposition&#8217;s stadium &#8211; only a neutral ground.<br \/>\nThis morning a Yealding player was talking about how he wanted to play at St James&#8217; Park. Well guess what, if you get a draw at home, you can play there. But it&#8217;s not a divine right. Even neutral venues should only be considered in extreme cases. If you&#8217;re able to hold a 3000 crowd, then that&#8217;s good enough for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Yealding have decided that they should try to hold their FA Cup tie against Newcastle at their home ground after all. A couple of years ago there was the farcical situation where Farnborough decided that they&#8217;d prefer to play their tie against Arssenal at Highbury instead of at home. Of course they [&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\/947"}],"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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}