{"id":413238,"date":"2025-09-10T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413238\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:35:13","slug":"football-knowle-battle-to-hard-fought-win-at-birmingham-ojm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413238\/","title":{"rendered":"FOOTBALL &#8211; Knowle battle to hard-fought win at Birmingham OJM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tKNOWLE battled to a hard-fought 2-1 victory away at Birmingham OJM to stretch their winning run to five matches in all competitions.<br \/>\nThe Robins raced into a two-goal lead inside 10 minutes before the home side halved the deficit in a frantic contest at Illey Lane.<\/p>\n<p>And the result means Knowle sit third in the Midland Football League Division One table.<\/p>\n<p>The Robins made the perfect start when Talib Copeland pounced on a mistake at the back and dribbled the ball into an empty net after just three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And Knowle doubled their lead on 10 minutes as Flynn Powell planted a trademark header into the net from a corner at the back post.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham responded on the half-hour mark when Reece Morris\u2019s volley crept over the line following a scramble in the box.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a frantic end-to-end second period, the Robins hung on to their lead to extend their winning run to five matches.<\/p>\n<p>Knowle are next in action against Allexton and New Parks on Saturday, September 13 with kick-off at 3pm at Glenfield Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; KNOWLE battled to a hard-fought 2-1 victory away at Birmingham OJM to stretch their winning run to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413238","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\/115180268837250839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413238","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=413238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}