{"id":94499,"date":"2019-05-25T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/25\/newport-county-v-tranmere-rovers-league-two-play-off-final-live\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:59:08","slug":"newport-county-v-tranmere-rovers-league-two-play-off-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=94499","title":{"rendered":"Newport County v Tranmere Rovers: League Two play-off final \u2013\u00a0live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>League Two play-off final updates from the 3pm BST kick-offThe Merseyside spotlight is on Tranmere, says MellonAnd you can email Ben here or tweet him here 2.55pm BST The teams trudge out on to the sun-drenched Wembley turf! We are just the pre-match formalities \u2013 including the English and Welsh national anthems, sang by soprano Emily Haig \u2013 away from kick-off. Newport and Tranmere were allocated 16,500 tickets apiece, so around 30,000 fans are busy making a racket. 2.51pm BST A couple of stats to get stuck into before the off at Wembley: this is Newport\u2019s 62nd game of the season \u2013 only Chelsea, who take on Arsenal in Baku in the Europa League final, will end up playing more; four players in the Tranmere starting lineup, including talisman James Norwood, featured in their previous two trips to Wembley; the team finishing seventh in League Two has gone on to win the play-off final in four of the last seven campaigns. Newport squeezed into seventh on the final day &#8230; Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2019\/may\/25\/newport-county-v-tranmere-rovers-league-two-play-off-final-live\" target=\"_blank\">Newport County v Tranmere Rovers: League Two play-off final \u2013\u00a0live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League Two play-off final updates from the 3pm BST kick-offThe Merseyside spotlight is on Tranmere, says MellonAnd you can email Ben here or tweet him here 2.55pm BST The teams trudge out on to the sun-drenched Wembley turf! We are just the pre-match formalities \u2013 including the English and Welsh [&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-94499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94499","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=94499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}