{"id":2584,"date":"2020-11-03T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairfordyouthfc.co.uk\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:54:40","slug":"news-lockdown-in-england-and-grassroots-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairfordyouthfc.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/03\/news-lockdown-in-england-and-grassroots-football\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Lockdown in England and grassroots football"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of you<\/strong><\/span> may have read the news reports regarding the pause of grassroots children’s football – we are still waiting on official confirmation from the North Wilts Youth League and the Football Association.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As soon as we have confirmation, we’ll share details here.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Most training sessions scheduled before this Thursday will still proceed – we hope that we can get back playing football soon and that in the meantime all our players, parents, volunteers, grandparents and carers are staying safe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We hope we can get back as soon as possible<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you may have read the news reports regarding the pause of grassroots children’s football – we are still waiting on official confirmation from […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","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-FG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1104,"url":"https:\/\/fairfordyouthfc.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/reminder-club-agm-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":2584,"position":0},"title":"Reminder: Club AGM tonight","author":"FYFC Team","date":"21 May 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the Club's AGM tonight, as well as the Election of Club Officials. 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