{"id":473144,"date":"2026-03-13T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:21:08","slug":"leicester-city-fan-loses-beard-after-foxes-clean-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473144\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City fan loses beard after Foxes clean sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Leicester City fan who had been growing his beard waiting for his beloved Foxes to keep a clean sheet has a clean-shaven chin once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In all competitions, the last shutout before their 2-0 win over Bristol City had been an FA Cup victory against Cheltenham in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eli Drury, from Gloucestershire, who has followed the club since meeting his wife Shannon 12 years ago, made the pledge, not realising he would be left bristling for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, Drury visited BBC Radio Leicester, where presenter Ady Dayman clipped off his Foxes fuzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Leicester City fan who had been growing his beard waiting for his beloved Foxes to keep a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473144","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\/473144","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=473144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}