{"id":15636,"date":"2014-11-16T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2014-11-17T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:46:21","slug":"ghostly-football-players-hunt-the-ball-in-the-swirling-mists-of-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/ghostly-football-players-hunt-the-ball-in-the-swirling-mists-of-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly football &#8211; players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-06.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I travelled to\u00a0Surrey to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/?s=hamlet\" target=\"_blank\">Dulwich Hamlet<\/a>\u00a0take on the\u00a0Metropolitan Police FC\u00a0at their\u00a0East\u00a0Molesey ground.<\/p>\n<p>The game wasn&#8217;t that great &#8211; Hamlet lost 2-0 &#8211; but there were some dramatic scenes in a\u00a0neighbouring pitch\u00a0as a thick mist\u00a0descended over an amateur football\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-01.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure who was playing who, but the\u00a0players\u00a0gamely battled on despite the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0a few photos of the\u00a0foggy action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-02.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-04.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-03.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-05.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ghostly-football-surrey-07.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly football -players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mist lingered long after the game had finished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/images\/met-police-dulwich-hamlet-nov-2014-35.jpg\" alt=\"Dulwich Hamlet's hopes crushed in the damp and dank mists of Met Police FC,  Imber Court, East Molesey, Surrey, Saturday 15th November 2014\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above: photo from the Dulwich Hamlet game taking place nearby. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/2014\/11\/dulwich-hamlets-fa-trophy-hopes-crushed-in-the-damp-and-dank-mists-of-met-police-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I travelled to\u00a0Surrey to watch Dulwich Hamlet\u00a0take on the\u00a0Metropolitan Police FC\u00a0at their\u00a0East\u00a0Molesey ground. The game wasn&#8217;t that great &#8211; Hamlet lost 2-0 &#8211; but there were some dramatic scenes &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,194,17,193],"tags":[38,1192,1023,1024,1025,106,227],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-autumn","tag-football","tag-mist","tag-molesey","tag-soccer","tag-surrey","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ghostly-football-surrey-06.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-44c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15648,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions\/15648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}