{"id":6208,"date":"2011-11-28T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2011-11-28T19:29:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:29:23","slug":"a-league-201112-round-eight-the-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6208","title":{"rendered":"A-League 2011\/12 &#8211; Round Eight &#8211; The Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6209\" title=\"36\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/36.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/36-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yougotushere.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6210\" title=\"yougotushere\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yougotushere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yougotushere.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yougotushere-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a damp Saturday night at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Roar destroyed Perth Glory 4-0 to outright claim the all-time longest football undefeated streak of any code, besting the mightiest efforts in the entire history of the NRL, AFL, Super Rugby and NSL.\u00a0 The win came from a comprehensive first half performance that saw two goals from Issey Nakajim Farran who finally came good and Besart Berisha who continues his extraordinary run of averaging more than a goal a game.\u00a0 He is now on nine for the season and comfortably leads the pack for the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n<p>On Fox Sports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/football\/matchdaysaturday\/arsenal-legend-robert-pires-praises-brisbane-roar-but-issues-a-challenge-try-beat-our-record\/story-fn6aiier-1226207274109\">Robert Pires came on the show and cut a promo on the Roar<\/a> claiming that the measely 36 game unbeaten streak in Australia was nothing compared to Arsenal&#8217;s 49 game run from 2004.\u00a0 He said that if the Roar got to 49 games then he would sanction a No Holds Barred cage match between Arsene Venger and Ange Postecoglou to settle the score.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful night and I celebrated with much merriment.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really recall much of what happened after fulltime.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s much more to say right now other than how happy I am with the team and the incredible entertaining brand of football they&#8217;ve been playing.\u00a0 The 36 game streak includes just 13 draws, not a single scoreless game and an average of 2.5 Roar goals per game.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been wonderful entertainment.\u00a0 Long may the streak continue and here&#8217;s to the Roar continuing to lift the standard in the A-League.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>BRISBANE ROAR 4 &#8211; PERTH GLORY 0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>ADELAIDE UNITED 0 &#8211; NEWCASTLE JETS 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MELBOURNE VICTORY 3 &#8211; GOLD COAST UNITED 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 3 &#8211; MELBOURNE HEART 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WELLINGTON PHOENIX 2 &#8211; SYDNEY FC 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aleaguernd8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6212\" title=\"aleaguernd8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aleaguernd8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aleaguernd8.jpg 318w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aleaguernd8-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other streaks on the horizon:<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arsenalstreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6211\" title=\"arsenalstreak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arsenalstreak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arsenalstreak.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arsenalstreak-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/acmilanstreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6213\" title=\"acmilanstreak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/acmilanstreak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/acmilanstreak.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/acmilanstreak-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldbergstreak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6214\" title=\"goldbergstreak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldbergstreak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldbergstreak.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldbergstreak-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a damp Saturday night at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Roar destroyed Perth Glory 4-0 to outright claim the all-time longest football undefeated streak of any code, besting the mightiest efforts in the entire history of the NRL, AFL, Super Rugby and NSL.\u00a0 The win came from a comprehensive first half performance that saw two goals &#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":[218,1108,1107,342,1109],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-league","tag-ac-milan","tag-arsenal","tag-brisbane-roar","tag-robert-pires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","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=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}