{"id":4057,"date":"2021-01-09T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2021-01-09T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T17:11:39","slug":"up-for-the-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"Up For The Cup!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it is that day when all football fans dream when the<em><strong> FA Cup Third Round<\/strong> <\/em>takes place. A pity that economics has meant many teams don&#8217;t take it seriously-even my beloved <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Hatters<\/strong> <\/span>made nine changes for their game today! Always loved listening to the draw in the past and hoping for an exciting away day at a new ground, sadly this year that won&#8217;t be the case!\u00a0\u00a0It was an old fashioned day for me because I had to listen to the game (first match this season I haven&#8217;t been able to watch.) It reminded me of those sad times when I followed games on CeeFax\u00a0 (younger readers brought up with the internet might not know what that is!).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thursday&#8217;s quiz<\/strong> <\/em>I hope didn&#8217;t tax you!<\/p>\n<p>a)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Drake<\/strong> <\/span>of course is a male duck!\u00a0 b) <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Antarctica<\/strong> <\/span>is the only continent without ducks\u00a0 c) The picture was of a <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Mandarin Duck<\/strong> <\/span>-I see them from time to time in Frampton,<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Quiz is all on the <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>F.A. Cup<\/strong> <\/span>and you can make educated guesses on all of them!<\/p>\n<p>a) Which was the first <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>non-league team<\/strong> <\/span>to win away at a Premier League in the F.A. Cup? (clue I was there!)\u00a0 b) What <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>well known \u00a0manager<\/strong> <\/span>in this year&#8217;s F.A. Cup Third Round has brought a raffle ticket in his opponent&#8217;s raffle ?\u00a0 c) \u00a0\u00a0How many entrants took part in the first F.A. Cup in 1872? Was it <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>15, 32 or 24?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> d) What is the record <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>F.A. Cup score?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 e) Who was the first <span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong>university<\/strong><\/span> to win the FA Cup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it is that day when all football fans dream when the FA Cup Third Round takes place. A pity that economics has meant many teams don&#8217;t take it seriously-even my beloved Hatters made nine changes for their game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-13r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}