{"id":15299,"date":"2015-12-29T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=15299"},"modified":"2015-12-29T09:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T07:01:29","slug":"champions-big-bullets-parade-the-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/29\/champions-big-bullets-parade-the-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Big Bullets parade the trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was business unusual Tuesday in Lilongwe as newly-crowned TNM Super League champions, Big Bullets, paraded the trophy from the Capital City to the Commercial City, Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>The champions started off from Lilongwe at around 10:30 am with a convoy of over 20 vehicles. Bullets defeated Civo United 3-1 on Sunday to finish on 66 points, 16 points ahead of second-placed Mafco.<\/p>\n<p>Blaring car horns, red scarfsand flags characterised the mood all the way to Blantyre as fans, including women and children, lined up the streets to cheer the champions.<\/p>\n<p>Lilongwe-based fans escorted the team all the way to Dedza.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets second vice-chairperson, Austin Kasito, congratulated the players for a spirited performance throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players worked hard and they deserve respect from all the fans.<\/p>\n<p>We won the league with some games and it was not a mean achievement in a tough league like the TNM Super League,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets captain, Pilirani Zonda, congratulated the fans, saying \u201cIt was not an easy road for us, but we showed our quality throughout the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was business unusual Tuesday in Lilongwe as newly-crowned TNM Super League champions, Big Bullets, paraded the trophy from the Capital City to the Commercial City, Blantyre. The champions started off from Lilongwe at around 10:30 am with a convoy of over 20 vehicles. Bullets defeated Civo United 3-1 on Sunday to finish on 66 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15323,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15299\/revisions\/15323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}