{"id":500182,"date":"2026-03-28T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:10:13","slug":"southend-open-stadium-for-screening-of-fa-trophy-semi-at-southport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500182\/","title":{"rendered":"Southend open stadium for screening of FA Trophy semi at Southport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southport, managed by former Guyana international Neil Danns, are the lowest-ranked club left in the FA Trophy, and remain unbeaten at home this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To reach the semi-final, Southend recorded wins against Truro City, Bath City, Chatham Town and Horsham, while Southport have knocked out two National League clubs on their route to the final four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southend beat Southport 1-0 in the fourth found of last season&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maher added: &#8220;It&#8217;s the way with cup competitions; once you get through the first few rounds, the more exciting and interesting they get. So, we&#8217;re looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southend have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southendunited.co.uk\/news\/2026\/march\/05\/ticket-information--isuzu-fa-trophy-semi-final\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ0ce1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2N0lvQnVmVTZmamlRNmhIc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhZWLFwd4x7qeOclgS8El2dDQ5HwqFMlKYJT4tZRNCZM81JjQfvR1-7WuGgv_aem__7Pfq8rQ_NiiejNAAfMPkg\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allocated, external<\/a> 808 tickets for Southport&#8217;s Haig Avenue ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other semi-final is Wealdstone v Marine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final at Wembley is on 17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southport, managed by former Guyana international Neil Danns, are the lowest-ranked club left in the FA Trophy, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-500182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500182","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=500182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}