{"id":39460,"date":"2012-04-25T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=39460"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:00:29","slug":"premier-league-defending-champions-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=39460","title":{"rendered":"Premier League, Defending Champions Held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defending champions, Ports Authority were held to a 0-0 draw at their final match in the first round of the Premier League competition on Sunday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> April at the National Stadium in Freetown.\u00a0 (Photo: Ports Authority FC)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draw was vital for Mourinho\u2019s Kissy All Stars as they have moved from relegation zone replacing Wusum Stars of Makeni who have held their current position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first round of the Premier League competition will end on Sunday 29<sup>th<\/sup> April at the National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday 28<sup>th<\/sup> April, Mighty Blackpool will engage FC FC who are bottom the ladder of the Premier League table with 6 points having played 12 matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday April 29 league leaders, FC Kallon will entertain the roaring East-End Lions and both matches will be played at the National Stadium in Freetown climaxing the end of round one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FC Kallon are currently leading the table with 27 points with a game in hand, Old Edwardians lay second with 26 points having played 13 matches so far. Diamond Stars are now 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the pecking order with 25 points having played 13 matches and newly promoted FC Johansen are 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the table with 20 points in 13 matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions, Ports Authority were held to a 0-0 draw at their final match in the first round of the Premier League competition on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[11855,2945,3092,12010],"class_list":["post-39460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-kissy-all-stars","tag-ports-authority","tag-premier-league","tag-wusum-stars-of-makeni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}