{"id":634434,"date":"2025-12-15T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/634434\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:23:16","slug":"ollie-rathbone-wrexham-midfielder-felt-like-forgotten-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/634434\/","title":{"rendered":"Ollie Rathbone: Wrexham midfielder felt like &#8216;forgotten man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans chanted Rathbone&#8217;s name in the final minutes of the 2-2 draw with Watford, and the midfielder says he struggled to contain his emotions as the contest drew to a close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yeah it was nice. I was nearly welling up when I was out there, I had to try and keep it together. But it means a hell of a lot,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The draw against Watford stretched Wrexham&#8217;s unbeaten home league run to eight matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Parkinson&#8217;s side sit 14th before their trip to Swansea City on Friday (20:00 GMT), just six points adrift of the play-off places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Rathbone feels the Red Dragons will kick on in the new year as they look to build on their solid campaign so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think at the start we were just getting this new group together and you can slowly see it starting to click,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a lot more to come from us in the second half of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans chanted Rathbone&#8217;s name in the final minutes of the 2-2 draw with Watford, and the midfielder says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-634434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115724983013278467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634434","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=634434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}