{"id":336183,"date":"2025-08-11T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336183\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:40:11","slug":"ipswich-town-ashley-young-breaks-record-in-birmingham-city-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336183\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town: Ashley Young breaks record in Birmingham City draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The veteran full-back joined the Blues from Everton last month, returning to the second tier for the first time since he was a Watford player.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was his first appearance at the level since the Hornets&#8217; Championship play-off final in 2006, which was 19 years and 79 days before he featured for Town at St. Andrew&#8217;s in the 1-1 draw.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/subscribe\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=organic_social&amp;utm_campaign=alex_jones&amp;utm_term=Aug_25&amp;utm_content=100825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every kick, every goal, every moment \u2013 follow Ipswich Town into the new season for just \u00a36 for 6 months.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OptaJoe\/status\/1954860597058679103\" rel=\"nofollow\">Opta Joe<\/a>, that is the longest ever gap by a player between two appearances in the competition since it began in 2004\/05.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Young\u00a0joined Aston Villa from Watford in 2007, which preceded an extremely successful spell at Manchester United and a stint at Inter Milan before he returned to Villa Park in 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 40-year-old was given a hostile welcome by\u00a0Birmingham fans on Friday night due to his Aston Villa connections, with Town scoring deep into stoppage time to rescue a point in their first game of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The veteran full-back joined the Blues from Everton last month, returning to the second tier for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011127029130520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}