{"id":445645,"date":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445645\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:42:07","slug":"dykes-the-celebration-was-for-my-son-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445645\/","title":{"rendered":"Dykes : &#8220;The celebration was for my son on his birthday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goalscorer Lyndon Dykes revealed that his celebration in Tuesday evening\u2019s 1-1 draw at West Bromwich Albion was dedicated to his son on his eighth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland international raced through in the 70th minute at The Hawthorns to finish through the legs of the Baggies\u2019 keeper and earn the Addicks a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>With the ball hitting the net, he immediately ran to the travelling faithful and posed his hands in a \u2019T\u2019 symbol to celebrate his strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe celebration was for my son, because it\u2019s his birthday today,\u201d explained Dykes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s actually at home ill, so he\u2019s not too well. He\u2019s been a bit upset because he\u2019s not been at school with his friends on his eighth birthday and he told me that I had to score today and do a \u2019T\u2019 celebration, so that was for him. His name is Tiime so it was &#8216;T&#8217; for Tiime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goalscorer Lyndon Dykes revealed that his celebration in Tuesday evening\u2019s 1-1 draw at West Bromwich Albion was dedicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}