{"id":38305,"date":"2017-01-03T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=38305"},"modified":"2017-01-03T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T08:05:18","slug":"blue-eagles-learn-from-kamuzu-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/01\/03\/blue-eagles-learn-from-kamuzu-barracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Eagles learn from Kamuzu Barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Eagles finished the just-ended TNM Super League season in a very familiar fashion\u2014soaring then crash-landing into position four with 54 points.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles General Manager, Gabriel Chirwa, in a post-match interview after signing off the season with a 0-1 loss to Nyasa Big Bullets on Saturday at Kamuzu Stadium, insisted that injuries cost the cops the title.<\/p>\n<p>The police team finished seven points behind surprise winners, Kamuzu Barracks, a team that started the season with three consecutive defeats, only to bounce back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is a lesson for us from KB\u2019s success then it is that, sometimes it pays to start a season deceptively on a low note and play like you are bound for relegation,\u201d Chirwa said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at us, we started the season impressively and as a result, we were viewed as title favourites. Every team was determined to defeat us. Overall, I think injuries affected us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Eagles finished the just-ended TNM Super League season in a very familiar fashion\u2014soaring then crash-landing into position four with 54 points. Eagles General Manager, Gabriel Chirwa, in a post-match interview after signing off the season with a 0-1 loss to Nyasa Big Bullets on Saturday at Kamuzu Stadium, insisted that injuries cost the cops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38305","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\/38305","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=38305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38307,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305\/revisions\/38307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}