{"id":402133,"date":"2025-09-06T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402133\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:03:10","slug":"leeds-grassroots-football-pitch-graced-by-stars-nets-blue-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402133\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds grassroots football pitch graced by stars nets blue plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022, campaigners managed to secure the pitch as an &#8220;asset of community value&#8221; to help prevent it making way for a housing development. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the civic trust, organised sport had been played at the location since the 1850s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ground is named after teacher Tom Vernon Harrison, who led a fundraising campaign in 1928 for it to be purchased for the benefit of children in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hats off to Mr Harrison, who saved this long-established facility in the 1920s and to campaigners more recently who have secured its long-term future,&#8221; said Mr Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reaney, Deane, and fellow ex-professional players Stuart McCall and Noel Whelan, who also played at the ground, are set to be among those present for the 11:00 BST plaque unveiling on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022, campaigners managed to secure the pitch as an &#8220;asset of community value&#8221; to help prevent it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156314120629847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402133","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=402133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}