{"id":8317,"date":"2026-04-04T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:28:24","slug":"watching-the-mighty-hatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8317","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Mighty Hatters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short blog that is all football related! I have a busy week or so that has a strong football theme! I went yesterday to watch the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Hatters<\/strong><\/span> win and play some decent football. It has been grim this season watching them but maybe we are at last developing a clear playing style. We even managed to win despite the most awful set of match officials! The referee made some howling errors and the lino missed the ball being out of play on three occasions one leading to the opposition&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>I am off again on Monday to <strong>Wimbledon <\/strong>a new ground (it will be the 3rd different ground I&#8217;ve seen <strong>Wimbledon<\/strong> play the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Hatters<\/strong><\/span> on.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday we have a stadium tour booked and of course next Sunday I will be at <strong>Wembley<\/strong> wearing my boater cheering them on. The picture below is of our last <strong>Wembley<\/strong> visit (four members of the family in the picture!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2965.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6028\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6028\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2965.jpg?fit=2016%2C1512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2016,1512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2965\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2965.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2965.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6028\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_2965.jpg?resize=448%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short blog that is all football related! I have a busy week or so that has a strong football theme! I went yesterday to watch the Hatters win and play some decent football. It has been grim this season &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8317\">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-8317","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-2a9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","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=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8318,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions\/8318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}