{"id":28319,"date":"2026-09-04T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/we-owe-the-travelling-support-bekele\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:24:39","slug":"we-owe-the-travelling-support-bekele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/we-owe-the-travelling-support-bekele\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe owe the travelling support\u201d \u2014 Bekele on the run-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom\u00e1s Bekele grew up on the supporters\u2019 coaches. His father ran the Kingsway branch for a decade, and Bekele estimates he saw forty away grounds from the back seat before he saw one from the pitch.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know what a Tuesday night in Rivermouth costs,\u201d he says. \u201cThe time off, the fuel, the sandwiches. <strong>We owe the travelling support a performance every single time.<\/strong> That is not a slogan for me; it is family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<h3 id=\"the-westport-comeback\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Westport comeback<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two goals down with twenty minutes left on the coast, it was Bekele who pulled the side together at the drinks break. His equaliser in the 88th minute was his first goal for eighteen months.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI looked at the away end at 2\u20130 and nobody had left. Not one. You cannot let people like that go home with nothing.\u201d<\/p><cite>Tom\u00e1s Bekele, vice-captain<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<h3 id=\"loyalty-points-explained\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Loyalty points, explained<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Away tickets go on sale to members by loyalty points first.<\/li><li>Every away match attended earns points; cup ties earn double.<\/li><li>The club subsidises coach travel for members on every league trip.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bekele will lead the side out at Kingsway Park on Saturday, with the North Stand\u2019s rail seating open for the first time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vice-captain on away days, loyalty points and the coach trips that got him to Meridian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":0,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[187,284],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-28319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-interview","tag-tomas-bekele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=28319"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=28319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}