{"id":932,"date":"2025-03-12T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:23:55","slug":"murder-burglaries-losing-every-week-life-at-bottom-of-the-football-pyramid-sam-cunningham-the-i-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/murder-burglaries-losing-every-week-life-at-bottom-of-the-football-pyramid-sam-cunningham-the-i-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMurder, burglaries, losing every week: Life at bottom of the football pyramid\u201d &#8211; Sam Cunningham (The I paper)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThey tried to comply, raising money for floodlights and getting permission from the council, who own the pitch, to install them. \u201cThe following season not only do you need floodlights, the ground has to be enclosed and you have to be able to take money from a gate. We couldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s a public park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re down from One to Two. Not because we weren\u2019t any good but because the FA deemed the pyramid should be based on the facilities not ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen a footballer comes here on a Saturday afternoon they\u2019ve got decent changing rooms, good kit, they come into the bar afterwards, we cook good food, we look after them well \u2013 what more do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many other clubs like the 61 FC are now essentially trapped at the bottom of the pyramid. Old Bradwell United finished top in four successive seasons but were blocked from the league above\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/murder-burglaries-losing-every-week-life-bottom-football-pyramid-3468521\">https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/murder-burglaries-losing-every-week-life-bottom-football-pyramid-3468521<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey tried to comply, raising money for floodlights and getting permission from the council, who own the pitch, to install them. \u201cThe following season not only do you need floodlights, the ground has to be enclosed and you have to be able to take money from a gate. We couldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s a public&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}