{"id":53236,"date":"2024-10-10T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-bassey-seeks-fans-support-amid-poor-form\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:04:36","slug":"npfl-bassey-seeks-fans-support-amid-poor-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-bassey-seeks-fans-support-amid-poor-form\/","title":{"rendered":"NPFL: Bassey seeks fans support amid poor form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Akwa United have urged the club supporters to exercise patience with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Promise Keepers Chairman, Elder Paul Bassey made the call in a chat with the club\u2019s media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Akwa United are winless in five league outings this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is any time the club needs support, total support, it is now that we are struggling to overcome the hangover of last season,\u201d Bassey told Akwa United\u2019s media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur players play well at away matches, only to be subjected to unnecessary pressure at home causing them to be anxious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only in Uyo that a pocket of fans will start cheering the opposition few minutes into the match in a game where the outcome can only be known at the blast of the final whistle after 90 minutes\u201d the management noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other climes, teams lose scandalously at home, yet come next week-end, not a single seat will be found empty in the stadium and some of us support these teams forever, through thick and thin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NPFL: Bassey seeks fans support amid poor form<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akwa United have urged the club supporters to exercise patience with the team. The Promise Keepers Chairman, Elder Paul Bassey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6438,15,683,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bassey","category-news","category-npfl","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}