{"id":26898,"date":"2016-06-27T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=26898"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T08:30:39","slug":"hooligans-end-bsc-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/27\/hooligans-end-bsc-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooligans end BSC reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long wait, Venom Hooligans ended Blantyre Sports Club\u2019s A dominance in FMB Lesley Seven\u2019s Rugby Tournament on Saturday. Playing at home, BSC A were tipped to retain the trophy for a sixth successive time but they were shocked as the Hooligans recorded 27 points to outclass the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>On their way to the victory, Hooligans scored four tries, two conversions and a penalty kick while BSC A had three tries which accumulated to 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>Hooligans captain Dumisani Kumwenda said it was a dream come true for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not the favourites but we did not let that affect us. We encouraged each other and we really fought well. This victory is a reward of team work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>BSC A Captain Graham Staines was modest in defeat, saying Hooligans deserved to win.<\/p>\n<p>FMB Head of Marketing, Sylvia Mataka, said the bank was encouraged by the strides which the sport has made in four years of the bank\u2019s sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy with the structures that have enabled the sport to grow among the youths. There were four developmental sides and this is quite encouraging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long wait, Venom Hooligans ended Blantyre Sports Club\u2019s A dominance in FMB Lesley Seven\u2019s Rugby Tournament on Saturday. Playing at home, BSC A were tipped to retain the trophy for a sixth successive time but they were shocked as the Hooligans recorded 27 points to outclass the hosts. On their way to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26898","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\/26898","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=26898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26902,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26898\/revisions\/26902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}