{"id":3812,"date":"2011-01-08T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2011-01-08T20:33:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T10:33:28","slug":"a-league-round-25-brisbane-roar-vs-perth-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3812","title":{"rendered":"A-League &#8211; Round 25 &#8211; Brisbane Roar vs Perth Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3814\" style=\"width: 577px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fowlerashes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3814 \" title=\"fowlerashes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fowlerashes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fowlerashes.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fowlerashes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robbie Fowler is a cheeky sod<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first home game of the New Year saw the Roar entertain the basement dwelling Perth Glory.\u00a0 Although the Glory languish near the bottom of the table, they have hit a run of good form beating Adelaide United and drawing away to Gold Coast United in recent weeks.\u00a0 Would the Glory finally be the team to end The Streak?<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is no.\u00a0 We came away with a point from the game but it was pretty ugly to watch.\u00a0 For whatever reason, we seemed to lack our usual focus.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re still missing our captain Matt McKay who&#8217;s away for the Asian Cup or maybe its because Broich still isn&#8217;t 100% match fit after returning from his groin strain.\u00a0 Regardless, after a meandering first half that saw a few good opportunities, the Glory took the lead through Mile Sterjovski who fired in a shot when he was given waaaaaay too much space inside the penalty box by an uncharacteristically out of sorts Brisbane defence.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the Roar turned on the pressure but it took till the hour mark of the game before we found an answer when substitute and all-round cool guy Henrique beat his marker on the wing, fired in a dangerous cross and found the head of Mitch Nichols.\u00a0 The game stayed 1-1 with neither side really deserving the win.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to score corporate box tickets for this game but annoyingly, it wasn&#8217;t catered and you couldn&#8217;t bring in your own beer.\u00a0 It was annoying because the way the Roar played that night was certainly driving me to drink.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, The Streak continues as the Roar have now gone twenty games without defeat.\u00a0 The all-time domestic unbeaten streak in Australian football sits at 22, held by A.P.I.A Leichardt from the NSL days in 1987.<\/p>\n<h2>BRISBANE ROAR 1 &#8211; PERTH GLORY 1<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rnd25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3815\" title=\"rnd25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rnd25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rnd25.jpg 324w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rnd25-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first home game of the New Year saw the Roar entertain the basement dwelling Perth Glory.\u00a0 Although the Glory languish near the bottom of the table, they have hit a run of good form beating Adelaide United and drawing away to Gold Coast United in recent weeks.\u00a0 Would the Glory finally be the team &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[218,342],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-league","tag-brisbane-roar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}