{"id":3884,"date":"2017-07-21T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3884"},"modified":"2017-07-21T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:38:08","slug":"bantams-f-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3884","title":{"rendered":"Bantams F.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poem &#8216;Bantams F.C.&#8217; was written in 1900 by [not presently known]. It records the players in the Kerridge Bantams football team.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Here below you see the kerridge Football team<br \/>\nFor during the past season how faithful they&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nThere is Drabble in goal that needs some praise<br \/>\nFor seldom has he let the ball go past his face<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s Dickens &amp; Sidebottom play the game as backs<br \/>\nPeople that see them says they are cracks<br \/>\nThey kick with both feet till the ball is cleared<br \/>\nThen from the spectators they both get cheered<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The half backs are Goodwin Butterworth &amp; Hough<br \/>\nThat play the best when the game is rough<br \/>\nTho this season they have played a good game<br \/>\nNext season we hope they will do the same<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s Snape &amp; Wright on the right wing<br \/>\nWho make the opponents goal keeper&#8217;s hands sting<br \/>\nWhile Mayers and Green on the other side<br \/>\nDown the left wing does swiftly glide<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s Hodgkinson who plays centre forward<br \/>\nHe is not so very tallward<br \/>\nBut he runs down the field in the grandest style<br \/>\nWhile Jackson his companion waves the rag on the lines<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem &#8216;Bantams F.C.&#8217; was written in 1900 by [not presently known]. It records the players in the Kerridge Bantams football team. Here below you see the kerridge Football team For during the past season how faithful they&#8217;ve been There is Drabble in goal that needs some praise For seldom has he let the ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3884\/revisions\/3885"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}