{"id":2379,"date":"2019-08-01T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2019-08-01T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:31:39","slug":"alumni-football-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2019\/08\/01\/alumni-football-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Football Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The call went out from the ever popular former director of Kent Sport Mike Wilkins. Saturday 7 July 2019 was the date.\u00a0 They duly came and a fantastic day was had by all!<\/p>\n<p>The former players were put through their paces in a fun-filled festival of football. And you know what &#8211; despite the passing years. These guys have still got it!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Wilkins MBE (Director of Sport from 1992-2007) joined Kent as a Sports Assistant in 1971. Mike coached the university football team for over 30 years winning 35 trophies \u2013 including 3 Universities and Colleges Sports Finals. An incredibly popular man among our sporting alumni \u2013 particularly the many who represented Kent at Football over the many years that Mike successfully coached the team.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to everyone who came down for this wonderful day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2397\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2393 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2394\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2395\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2019\/08\/Football-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call went out from the ever popular former director of Kent Sport Mike Wilkins. Saturday 7 July 2019 was the date.\u00a0 They duly came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2019\/08\/01\/alumni-football-reunion\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[161,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}