{"id":153468,"date":"2020-07-23T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/23\/leeds-defend-decision-to-put-players-on-open-top-bus-outside-elland-road\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:51:47","slug":"leeds-defend-decision-to-put-players-on-open-top-bus-outside-elland-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153468","title":{"rendered":"Leeds defend decision to put players on open-top bus outside Elland Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Club says it was to encourage supporters to go homeLiverpool fans gathered outside Anfield despite warningsLeeds have defended the decision to parade the Championship trophy on an open-top bus after arrests were made following title celebrations outside Elland Road on Wednesday.There were similar scences after Liverpool\u2019s match when Merseyside police arrested nine people for a variety of offences after an estimated 2,000-3,000 fans gathered outside Anfield to celebrate the club\u2019s first league title ceremony for 30 years. The police also introduced a 48-hour dispersal zone around the stadium after fans ignored appeals to stay away due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/jul\/23\/leeds-defend-decision-open-top-bus-outside-elland-road-liverpool-anfield\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds defend decision to put players on open-top bus outside Elland Road<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club says it was to encourage supporters to go homeLiverpool fans gathered outside Anfield despite warningsLeeds have defended the decision to parade the Championship trophy on an open-top bus after arrests were made following title celebrations outside Elland Road on Wednesday.There were similar scences after Liverpool\u2019s match when Merseyside police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}