{"id":20201,"date":"2017-12-01T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=20201"},"modified":"2017-12-01T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:13:02","slug":"how-does-the-atmosphere-at-a-spanish-football-match-compare-to-those-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/how-does-the-atmosphere-at-a-spanish-football-match-compare-to-those-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the atmosphere at a Spanish football match compare to those in England?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The atmosphere at a football match is one of the sport&#8217;s great intangible wonders.<\/h3>\n<p>Since the introduction of regulations stipulating that all Premier League stadiums must be all-seater, English clubs have come under a lot of criticism for their sterile atmospheres on matchdays.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans in the UK yearn for a matchday experience like those in Germany, where tickets are cheap and there are safe-standing areas, or Spain where, with the influence of Italian ultra culture, there are large singing sections complemented by flags, drums and elected ultras leading the chants.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Voice of London<\/em> sent Reuben Pinder to Spain to watch Espanyol vs Valencia and tell us how the atmosphere at a Spanish game\u00a0compares to those in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-553654173\/how-does-the-atmosphere-at-a-spanish-football-match-compare-to-those-in-england<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words &amp; audio:\u00a0<\/strong>Reuben Pinder\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Subbing:\u00a0<\/strong>Nikolay Kolev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The atmosphere at a football match is one of the sport&#8217;s great intangible wonders. Since the introduction of regulations stipulating that all Premier League stadiums must be all-seater, English clubs have come under a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":20398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}