{"id":35,"date":"2010-12-27T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:27:46","slug":"gf38-a-glimmer-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"GF38: a glimmer of light?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So maybe there is some hope.\u00a0 A couple of weeks ago the club looked doomed: wretched on the pitch; rudderless off it; and the game&#8217;s managing body preparing an administrative relegation that would surely condemn the club to extinction.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But since then things have moved.\u00a0 A potential new owner has emerged who seems to have resources, business sense and a coherent plan for the club, and at the same time performances on the pitch have improved, with a rousing (if somewhat nervy at times) home win over Dijon being followed by an excellent away draw with Clermont.\u00a0 2-0 down at half-time, the team could reasonably have been expected to collapse, but an attacking and creative second-half display was crowned with a last-minute equaliser that was thoroughly deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Things are still fragile.\u00a0 The takeover has yet to be confirmed and approved, and the threat of a precautionary relegation is still hanging over the club, but there&#8217;s clearly spirit and ambition around the Stade des Alpes and, given the events of the last eighteen months, that&#8217;s as much as anyone could hope for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So maybe there is some hope.\u00a0 A couple of weeks ago the club looked doomed: wretched on the pitch; rudderless off it; and the game&#8217;s managing body preparing an administrative relegation that would surely condemn the club to extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}