{"id":1089,"date":"2018-05-17T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairfordlechladeyfc.co.uk\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:53:58","slug":"interview-u18s-graham-merrington-looks-ahead-to-the-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fairfordyouthfc.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/interview-u18s-graham-merrington-looks-ahead-to-the-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: U18s Graham Merrington looks ahead to the Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fairford and Lechlade U18s<\/strong> <\/span>coach Graham Merrington has been looking forward to this Saturday\u2019s North Wiltshire Youth League Cup Final.
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Having defeated Ashton Keynes in the semi-final, FLY FC travel to Swindon Town\u2019s County Ground to face Chippenham Town FC and Graham had this to say: \u201cIt\u2019s been a great season for the boys, they\u2019ve all worked really hard across the season \u2013 and it\u2019s going to be great to go down to Swindon for the final.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a superb opportunity for them to play at a football league ground and give a good account of themselves. Chippenham are a good, strong side, and we\u2019re really looking forward to the match.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Swindon Town’s Country Ground – the setting for this year’s Cup final<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final clashes with another cup final \u2013 the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester United at Wembley, but Graham\u2019s hopeful that Fairford and Lechlade will still enjoy plenty of support. \u201cWe\u2019d love to see people down there\u201d he said \u201cEspecially players and parents from our younger age groups \u2013 give it a few years and those guys could be playing in finals just like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The match kicks off at 5:05pm at Swindon Town\u2019s Country Ground, entry is \u00a34, with kids going free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fairford and Lechlade U18s coach Graham Merrington has been looking forward to this Saturday\u2019s North Wiltshire Youth League Cup Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa01EC-hz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1096,"url":"http:\/\/fairfordyouthfc.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/20\/cup-final-report-flyfc-u18s-4-chippenham-town-fc-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1089,"position":0},"title":"Cup Final Report: FLYFC U18s 4 Chippenham Town FC 1","author":"FYFC Team","date":"20 May 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Three goals in the final 20 minutes gave Fairford & Lechlade Youth glory in the North Wilts Youth League Under 18 Cup Final against FC Chippenham. 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