{"id":8012,"date":"2021-03-12T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:02:35","slug":"football-hero-blissett-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/football-hero-blissett-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornet&#8217;s hero honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Luther Blissett, the former Watford and England footballer, has had his charity work and efforts to fight racism officially recognised.<br \/>\nBlissett, who scored 186 goals in 503 games for Watford between 1975 and 1993 \u2013 and has been involved in \u2018countless community projects\u2019 since retiring from the professional game \u2013 has been made a Freeman of the Borough of Watford by the town council.<\/p>\n<p>Quoted on the bbc.com, Peter Taylor, the town's mayor, said:&nbsp; \u2018If anyone deserves to have the honour of Freedom of the Borough, it is Luther Blissett.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The popular 63-year-old former centre forward said his was 'overwhelmed' by the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018From the age of 17, I played for Watford FC, I was their first full England cap and won a golden boot for Europe,\u2019 he said.&nbsp;\u2018But what made that time even more special was our town and the wonderful golden-hearted people in it.[They are] my football family, right here in Watford.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Blissett set the old First Division alight in his playing days, lea...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luther Blissett, the former Watford and England footballer, has had his charity work and efforts to fight racism officially recognised. Blissett, who scored 186 goals in 503 games for Watford between 1975 and 1993 \u2013 and has been involved in \u2018countless community projects\u2019 since retiring from the professional game \u2013 has been made a Freeman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}