{"id":6466,"date":"2021-12-19T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2021-12-19T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T08:50:07","slug":"around-our-league-on-saturday-18th-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/around-our-league-on-saturday-18th-december-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Our League On Saturday 18th December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, whilst our Stoke side sat idle this weekend, and with three other games lost through covid issues, this gave teams a chance to strengthen or improve their league position.<\/p>\n<p>League leaders Bracknell continued their dominance in this league with a comfortable 3-0 win at home to playoff chasers Hanwell Town. A brace by Seb Bowerman and a Hanwell own goal being enough to increase their lead at the top to 12 points. Proving money does count!!<\/p>\n<p>Chertsey Town took full advantage to move up to second place with a comfortable 3-1 win at home to Staines Town. Two first-half goals by Bryan Taylor was more than enough in front of the highest attendance on the day (663), to leave Staines at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p>With Uxbridge losing in the FA Trophy and both Marlow and Bedfont Sports games falling to covid, our Basingstoke side just dropped one place to third.<\/p>\n<p>Note Bedfont Sports are due to travel to Marlow this coming Tuesday, if covid concerns can be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Binfield\u2019s trip to Guernsey was the other game off due to the current covid crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Ashford Town\u2019s 2-0 home win against Chalfont St Peter, came via a late, late-double from striker Aaron McLeish-White and puts them in 10<sup>th<\/sup> place, but in front of just 87 fans. Chalfont\u2019s latest loss leaves them on eleven points, just one place above bottom-placed Staines Town.<\/p>\n<p>Tooting &amp; Mitcham Utd also took advantage to move up the table with a solitary goal victory at home to Westfield. T&amp;M now sit in 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Northwood\u2019s recent run of form since it changed it\u2019s management team and half the squad, came to an end in a single-goal loss at home to Thatcham Town. Ex-Stoke defender Josh Edwards being the scorer for Thatcham.<\/p>\n<p>With just five games yesterday, there was only one player given his marching orders yesterday, this being Hanwell Town\u2019s Sam Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Stoke is our home match against Thatcham Town on Monday 27th.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, whilst our Stoke side sat idle this weekend, and with three other games lost through covid issues, this gave teams a chance to strengthen or improve their league position. League leaders Bracknell continued their dominance in this league with a comfortable 3-0 win at home to playoff chasers Hanwell Town. A brace by Seb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_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":""},"categories":[91,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-22-news","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BTFC-Supporters-Club-Badge-e1561899076293.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btfcsc.co.uk\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}