{"id":354265,"date":"2025-08-18T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354265\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:40:14","slug":"australian-man-jumps-into-river-kelvin-to-get-his-football-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354265\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian man jumps into River Kelvin to get his football back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is the moment an Australian man jumped into the River Kelvin to get his football back, prompting cheers from crowds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan Hespe had been enjoying some sunshine at a beer garden in the West End with the rest of the Glasgow Sharks Australian Rules Football Club when he lost his ball over a fence.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to get it back, Dan jumped into the river at Kelvinbridge and swam to retrieve the football.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the swim, he told STV News: \u201cWe\u2019ve been participating in our Silly Sunday for the day, which is a tradition in Australia, where, as the name [suggests], you get silly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd unfortunately, my football ended up in the Kelvin, and I thought that it didn\u2019t look too deep, maybe up to the knees. Turned out \u2013 up to your chin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, I got the ball, everyone\u2019s cheering, these things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan and the rest of his friends then returned to enjoying their evening at the pub.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the moment an Australian man jumped into the River Kelvin to get his football back, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115050057469336310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354265","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=354265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}