{"id":899255,"date":"2026-09-20T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:54:10","slug":"andros-townsend-avoids-injury-after-bizarre-pitch-roller-incident-in-thailand-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899255\/","title":{"rendered":"Andros Townsend avoids injury after bizarre pitch roller incident in Thailand | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The former England winger Andros Townsend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/androstownsend\/3989872026722725713\/?hl=en\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has joked<\/a> Stoke away \u201cwasn\u2019t so bad after all\u201d following a bizarre incident in Thailand where he was run over by a pitch roller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The former Tottenham and Crystal Palace attacker currently plays in Thai League 1 for PT Prachuap and made headlines on Saturday night when a clip emerged on social media which showed the 35-year-old being taken out before a fixture at Pattani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Townsend was warming up when a member of staff at Pattani appeared to lose control of the pitch roller and it crashed into the 13-cap England international. The left leg of the Prachuap player briefly got stuck under the vehicle, but he did feature off the bench late on in the 3-0 win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Regular ITV pundit Townsend later took to Instagram to make light of the incident, referencing one of his recent posts in which he contrasted a sun-drenched Thai away trip with previous visits to Stoke\u2019s windswept stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Townsend said on his Instagram story: \u201cIt turns out Stoke away wasn\u2019t so bad after all. Swipe to see why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Another post described Townsend as \u2018The King of Memes in Thai League history\u2019 and he replied \u201ctrust me\u201d with four laughing emojis.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former England winger Andros Townsend has joked Stoke away \u201cwasn\u2019t so bad after all\u201d following a bizarre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-899255","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\/899255","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=899255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}