{"id":7,"date":"2010-10-30T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simms.ch\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-11-11T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:06:55","slug":"gf38-another-season-of-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"GF38: another season of misery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all gone distinctly pear-shaped at Grenoble Foot.\u00a0 Several years of hope, excitement and entertaining football culminated in the opening of the splendid Stade des Alpes in 2008 and a somewhat unexpected promotion to the top flight, but after a single season of solidity in Ligue 1 (and a run to the semi-finals of the cup) it all started falling apart.<!--more--> The 2009-10 season saw GF rooted to the foot of the table from day one and never even looking remotely likely to avoid the drop, and the 2010-11 season has started in a similarly dismal way.\u00a0 Bottom after thirteen games with only ten points, it&#8217;s going to take a serious turnaround in the club&#8217;s fortunes and a return to the ranks of the National division, a level left behind amid euphoric scenes in 2001.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not hard to see where the problems lie: seven goals in those thirteen games tells its own story.<\/p>\n<p>Given the continual discussions about the club&#8217;s finances, it will be interesting to see if funds will be made available for new players during the next transfer window.\u00a0 With a change in manager already this season, the new manager must surely have his own ideas about the players he needs.\u00a0 But regardless of the resources available, it&#8217;s going to require a lot of efforts on the pitch to avoid gaining the distinction of being the club with the finest stadium in the third division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all gone distinctly pear-shaped at Grenoble Foot.\u00a0 Several years of hope, excitement and entertaining football culminated in the opening of the splendid Stade des Alpes in 2008 and a somewhat unexpected promotion to the top flight, but after a single season of solidity in Ligue 1 (and a run to the semi-finals of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simms.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}