{"id":4866,"date":"2004-02-23T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2004-02-23T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T15:05:56","slug":"depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/02\/23\/depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/main.jhtml?xml=\/sport\/2004\/02\/23\/sfnbri23.xml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Brighton likely to die if stadium bid fails\">sad, and sadly all-too-true, article<\/a> from today&#8217;s Telegraph.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Brighton have spent &pound;5 million they don&#8217;t have preparing the Falmer project, paying solicitors at the protracted public inquiry and bringing Withdean up to Football League standards. It costs &pound;40,000 a match to rent and steward the athletics track as well as provide a park and ride scheme and yet it only holds 7,000 people. <\/p>\n<p>The club are losing money as each day goes by. If directors stopped writing cheques, no one would get paid. Obviously it cannot go on.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you care about football, even as little as I do, you should be worried by this. This has serious consequences for League football in the UK. If Brighton fail to get a new stadium, it will undoubtedly lead to the club&#8217;s closure, miracles notwithstanding. Next it could be your local club. The Gillinghams, Bournemouths, Port Vales and Exeters of this world are all in the same boat. It&#8217;s about more than just a football ground. It has social consequences that are all too often overlooked &#8211; a local football team is part of the community.<br \/>\nDark days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sad, and sadly all-too-true, article from today&#8217;s Telegraph. Brighton have spent &pound;5 million they don&#8217;t have preparing the Falmer project, paying solicitors at the protracted public inquiry and bringing Withdean up to Football League standards. It costs &pound;40,000 a match to rent and steward the athletics track as well as provide a park and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}