{"id":64344,"date":"2010-04-17T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T09:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64344"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T17:39:48","slug":"not-the-world-cup-but-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64344","title":{"rendered":"Not The World Cup; But!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64343\" style=\"width:804px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img962-2-a-1-400x200.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Taken from an article in the Illustrated weekly dated 12th December 1936; headlined: &#8220;Who&#8217;ll Play The Old Boys?&#8221;, describing one of the oldest football teams in England or possibly the world. &#8220;Lingdale Grandfathers&#8221; had a combined age of over 1000 years (including the three reserves!); having issued a challenge with Canning Town  responding. I wonder if they played Canning Town and who won;&nbsp; does anyone out there know?<br>Image from a cutting courtesy of Ruth White.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taken from an article in the Illustrated weekly dated 12th December 1936; headlined: &#8220;Who&#8217;ll Play The Old Boys?&#8221;, describing one of the oldest football teams in England or possibly the world. &#8220;Lingdale Grandfathers&#8221; had a combined age of over 1000 years (including the three reserves!); having issued a challenge with Canning Town responding. I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boosbeck-lingdale-people","category-football","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78672,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64344\/revisions\/78672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}