{"id":777,"date":"2009-10-21T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-09-15T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T22:14:58","slug":"footballs-trusts-must-keep-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Football&#8217;s trusts must keep the faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Slater<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You must never run a football club based on what somebody might shout at you from the stands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given the nonsense I sometimes spout about the &#8220;size&#8221; of my club (and therefore what division we should be playing in) this advice was possibly the most important message to come out of last week&#8217;s slightly subdued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supporters-direct.org\/\">Supporters Direct Annual Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I say subdued because delegates from the 150+ supporters&#8217; trusts active in the UK assembled in Birmingham eager to trumpet how far the fan-ownership movement in football (and more recently rugby league) has come but mindful that the last year has witnessed a few bum notes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this intetresting article at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/mattslater\/2009\/10\/footballs_trusts_must_keep_the.html\">www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/mattslater\/2009\/10\/footballs_trusts_must_keep_the.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Slater &#8220;You must never run a football club based on what somebody might shout at you from the stands.&#8221; Given the nonsense I sometimes spout about the &#8220;size&#8221; of my club (and therefore what division we should be playing in) this advice was possibly the most important message&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporters-direct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}