{"id":925,"date":"2003-09-17T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2010-08-04T01:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T00:40:04","slug":"925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/925\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive box woe – Reading vs Cardiff City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executive box woe<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m afraid today hasn’t gone to plan. What should have been a whoopy-doopsy, all expenses paid trip to Reading for a Toshiba press launch and – oh yes! – the prospect of watching the mighty Cardiff City continue their winning form went horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

Sure the exec book at Reading was suitably whizzy, and there was free beer, but things started to go awry when the food was wheeled out: chicken, chicken or, err, more chicken.<\/p>\n

Far from enjoying a pre-match feast, yours truly was left nibbling on a dull diet of dried pitta bread and lettuce.<\/p>\n

And the the football! The first half was a joy to behold, with Cardiff commanding the game and looking set to roll onto another triumph. After 12 minutes we were 1-0 up and looking good for more.<\/p>\n

And then something odd happened at half time. We became Reading and they became us! Suddenly, Reading were al over us like a bad suit and we slumped to a 2-1 defeat.<\/p>\n

And then I came home to find that the entire urban75.org has site has mysteriously gone offline (that’ll teach me to boast about the stats, eh?)<\/p>\n

Oh well… ho hum…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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