{"id":707,"date":"2010-03-07T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=707"},"modified":"2010-03-07T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T15:26:09","slug":"who-are-ya-who-are-ya-who-are-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Who are ya! Who are ya! Who are ya!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img id=\"image708\" alt=\"footy1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/footy1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday Mike managed to get us two tickets to a football game, Arsenal vs. Burnley.\u00a0 It is only the 2nd football (soccer) game I have been to while living here for 10 years, and this one wasn&#8217;t a pre season friendly game, but a deadly serious Premiership match.\u00a0 We had great seats. Although in the top tier we were in the very first row, so we had a fantastic view of the game. Things were a lot more comfortable after I got over the feeling I should be getting vertigo!<\/p>\n<p>A football match is quite different to a rugby match and it was a bit strange to see the away crowd completely segregated by seating, entrance, rest rooms, food etc.\u00a0 I understand this is quite normal in football matches due to the tribal nature of the games supporters.\u00a0 But I still find it very odd.\u00a0 However, when Mike asked me to go to the bathroom just before half time I was like no way I am watching the away crowd rile the home crowd and then the home crowd retaliate. The away crowd seemed way more vocal than the home crowd and there must&#8217;ve only been about 1,500 of them, and the total crowd attendance was 60,043 (to put it in perspective that&#8217;s more than the entire population of Nelson or Napier).<\/p>\n<p>It was an exciting match with lots of action, there were so many shots at goal. Arsenal won, but they did make very hard work of it&#8230; I am not kidding. They missed so many opportunities! I think they must&#8217;ve missed at least 10 easy shots and at least 6 of those were ones that should&#8217;ve gone in. Apparently they are currently missing a view strikers due to injury&#8230; Or something!<\/p>\n<p>Would I go again?\u00a0 Yes and next time I would take some more socks and a blankey as it was very cold.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img id=\"image709\" alt=\"footy2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/footy2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Mike managed to get us two tickets to a football game, Arsenal vs. Burnley.\u00a0 It is only the 2nd football (soccer) game I have been to while living here for 10 years, and this one wasn&#8217;t a pre season friendly game, but a deadly serious Premiership match.\u00a0 We had great seats. Although in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}