{"id":2341,"date":"2025-07-18T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2341\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:47:08","slug":"fc-isle-of-man-summer-football-festival-kicks-off-in-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2341\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Isle of Man summer football festival kicks off in Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 1,000 supporters travelled to the island for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cyj3krl7n2ko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inaugural festival<\/a> last year, featuring Chester, Lancaster City and Radcliffe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers have urged local fans to show their support for both the home side and the visiting clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Altrincham co-chairman Lawrence Looney was recently appointed to the Ravens board following his departure from the Greater Manchester club in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ravens&#8217; first competitive match took place in July 2022, after the team&#8217;s membership was suspended from the 2020-21 season due to the island&#8217;s coronavirus border restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starting out in the First Division South, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/61112563\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured promotion<\/a> to the league&#8217;s Premier Division in its first season, where the club has remained since 2022-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 1,000 supporters travelled to the island for the inaugural festival last year, featuring Chester, Lancaster City and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}