{"id":31922,"date":"2012-04-12T03:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/manchester_united_loses_manchester_city_wins_in_premiere_league_title_race\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T03:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:30:05","slug":"manchester_united_loses_manchester_city_wins_in_premiere_league_title_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31922","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United loses, Manchester City wins in Premiere League title race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United blew open the Premier League title race by slumping to a surprise 1-0 loss at lowly Wigan on Wednesday, allowing second-place Manchester City to close the gap to five points with a 4-0 win over West Bromwich Albion.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun Maloney scored the winner in the 50th minute at the DW Stadium, leaving United five points clear at the top after second-place Manchester City beat West Bromwich Albion 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You wish the lead was better but considering where we were a few months ago, you have to take it,&#8221; United manager Alex Ferguson said. &#8220;I said both teams would drop points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/soccer\/04\/11\/england.roundup.ap\/index.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United blew open the Premier League title race by slumping to a surprise 1-0 loss at lowly Wigan on Wednesday, allowing second-place Manchester City to close the gap to five points with a 4-0 win over West Bromwich Albion.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31922\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,125,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-men","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}