{"id":8541,"date":"2026-08-16T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8541"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:06:31","slug":"unbelievable-up-the-hatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8541","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable!!!!! UP THE HATTERS!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was the start of the football season and we travelled to <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Reading<\/strong> <\/span>on the train full of hope but some trepidation! The journey went smoothly and we even managed to get a bus from the station using our bus passes!<\/p>\n<p>The game kicked off and the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> were soon ahead. However, it then went pear shaped as our defenders gift wrapped <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Reading<\/strong><\/span> with two goals and a glaring mistake by the ref saw us go in 3-1 down.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mighty Hatters<\/strong><\/span> are certainly resilient and came roaring back to score two quick goals to equalise. We got to the closing minutes of injury time when we scored a dramatic winner to win 4-3!!! Cue jubilation in the away end! A couple of pictures below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8542\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8542\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1698&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1698\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 17e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1786804440&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0110\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110-scaled.jpeg?fit=584%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8542\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0110.jpeg?resize=472%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0109-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8543\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8543\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0109-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1813&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1813\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.64&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 17e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1786804399&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0047619047619048&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0109\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0109-scaled.jpeg?fit=584%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8543\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0109.jpeg?resize=514%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was the start of the football season and we travelled to Reading on the train full of hope but some trepidation! The journey went smoothly and we even managed to get a bus from the station using our bus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8541\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8541","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-2dL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541","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=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}