{"id":30250,"date":"2016-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/"},"modified":"2016-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The voice of Australian football Simon Hill momentarily rained on Adelaide\u2019s parade following news the city will host an important Socceroos World Cup qualifier next year\u2026<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf you remember when they played Tajikistan at Adelaide Oval last year &#8212; the pitch was in a right old state,\u201d Simon told the FIVEAA sports show. \u201cIt looked awful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s because there was a concert there a few days before\u2026 I think it played ok, to be fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/295471558&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Simon gave Rowey and Bicks some strict instructions\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou boys down there in South Australia, you make sure that pitch is alright, okay? We don\u2019t want the grass too short, we don\u2019t want it too long, we don\u2019t want horrible lines all over it &#8212; you just make sure it\u2019s good,\u201d Simon said.<\/p>\n<p>But he admitted he was \u201csplitting hairs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great that Adelaide\u2019s got another international \u2026 hopefully one day we might even have a dedicated football stadium for Adelaide United down there, wouldn\u2019t that be something, then we can play all the games there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/snake-catcher-slams-scaremongering\"><strong>SNAKE CATCHER &#8212; THIS IS THE WORST YEAR EVER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/south-australia-s-disappointing-afl-draft\"><strong>SHOCKING &#8212; SA\u2019S DUD AFL DRAFT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voice of Australian football Simon Hill momentarily rained on Adelaide\u2019s parade following news the city will host an important Socceroos World Cup qualifier next year\u2026 \u201cIf you remember when they played Tajikistan at Adelaide Oval last year &#8212; the pitch was in a right old state,\u201d Simon told the FIVEAA sports show. \u201cIt looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game? - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The voice of Australian football Simon Hill momentarily rained on Adelaide\u2019s parade following news the city will host an important Socceroos World Cup qualifier next year\u2026 \u201cIf you remember when they played Tajikistan at Adelaide Oval last year &#8212; the pitch was in a right old state,\u201d Simon told the FIVEAA sports show. \u201cIt looked [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FIVEAA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"headline\":\"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/soccerball.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Rowey and Timmy G\",\"Show\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/\",\"name\":\"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game? - FIVEAA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/soccerball.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/soccerball.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/soccerball.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/show\\\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\",\"name\":\"FIVEAA\",\"description\":\"Always Adelaide\",\"alternateName\":\"FIVEAA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\",\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tim Ashdown\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/author\\\/tashdown\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game? - FIVEAA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?","og_description":"The voice of Australian football Simon Hill momentarily rained on Adelaide\u2019s parade following news the city will host an important Socceroos World Cup qualifier next year\u2026 \u201cIf you remember when they played Tajikistan at Adelaide Oval last year &#8212; the pitch was in a right old state,\u201d Simon told the FIVEAA sports show. \u201cIt looked [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/","og_site_name":"FIVEAA","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa","article_published_time":"2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Tim Ashdown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_site":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tim Ashdown","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/"},"author":{"name":"Tim Ashdown","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"headline":"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?","datePublished":"2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/"},"wordCount":212,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg","articleSection":["Rowey and Timmy G","Show"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/","name":"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game? - FIVEAA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg","datePublished":"2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg","width":800,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-only-person-not-happy-about-adelaide-s-2017-socceroos-game\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The only person not happy about Adelaide\u2019s 2017 Socceroos game?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/","name":"FIVEAA","description":"Always Adelaide","alternateName":"FIVEAA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687","name":"Tim Ashdown","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tim Ashdown"},"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/author\/tashdown\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/soccerball.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30250"},{"taxonomy":"geo_market","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geo_market?post=30250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}