{"id":324,"date":"2012-01-23T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=324"},"modified":"2017-06-25T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:40:30","slug":"a-quiet-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 22nd January 2012 &#8211; I&#8217;VE ALWAYS WANTED &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to watch a 3rd Division football match in the Allier, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall.<\/p>\n<p>This is the lowest tier in football in the Allier (the Puy-de-D\u00f4me has four) but having seen matches higher up the pyramid and not been impressed at all, I wondered how bad an Allier 3rd Division match would be. <\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, with the Puy-de-Dome still being on the <em>tr\u00e8ve<\/em>, or &#8220;winter break&#8221;, this afternoon Terjat (about 8 miles from here) were entertaining (if that is the right word to use) their near-neighbours Sainte Th\u00e9rence in a cut-throat local derby down in the basement of the 3rd Division. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, with nothing better to do (there was no paint drying and no grass growing anywhere in the vicinity) a visit to Terjat was called for.<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn&#8217;t disappointed either, for it was predictably awful.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one player on the field who looked reasonably competent (I&#8217;m excluding the Sainte Th\u00e9rence goalkeeper &#8211; what on earth was someone like him doing playing in a team as awful as his?) and that was the Terjat centre-half.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear after the first five minutes that nothing was ever going to get past him as long as he was on the pitch, and it didn&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p>The trainer of Sainte Th\u00e9rence clearly had the same opinion as me, and the talk that he gave to his team at half-time was just so predictable. <\/p>\n<p>30 seconds after the restart, with the Terjat centre-half taking off after a loose ball down the right flank, two Ste Th\u00e9rence players came after him and put him firmly, fairly (well, the referee thought that it was fair &#8211; others might not) and squarely into the advertising hoardings with a thump that was heard all over the Allier.<\/p>\n<p>That was his match over. <\/p>\n<p>And so was AS Terjat&#8217;s, because the result was predictable after that.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop was to Liz and Terry&#8217;s to rehearse our radio programmes for the next month and Liz very kindly cooked tea and made cake, some of which found its way in a doggy-bag back to my house, for which I am extremely grateful<\/p>\n<p>So we are recording tomorrow morning, and then I have to crack on with the next outstanding task &#8211; my presentation on the Trans-Labrador Highway for the village discussion group. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all go here.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-324 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='324' data-nonce='6031f5de1d' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-324 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-324 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='324' data-nonce='6031f5de1d' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-324 unlc'>-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-324 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to watch a 3rd Division football match in the Allier, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall. This is the lowest tier in football in the Allier (the Puy-de-D\u00f4me has four) but having seen matches higher up the pyramid and not been impressed at all, I wondered how bad an Allier 3rd Division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4507,48,1616,258,330,307,31],"tags":[1783,5283,2560,5287,5565,5366,261,5307,5377,8920,5281,5311],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-terjat","category-eric-hall-2","category-football","category-france","category-les-guis","category-liz_terry-messenger","category-sauret-besserve","category-terjat","tag-allier","tag-as-terjat","tag-eric-hall","tag-football","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-radio-anglais","tag-sauret-besserve","tag-ste-therence","tag-terjat","tag-trans-labrador-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}