{"id":439,"date":"2016-06-10T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=439"},"modified":"2016-06-10T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T19:30:05","slug":"hatters-voted-premier-league-academy-sides-playing-efl-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/10\/hatters-voted-premier-league-academy-sides-playing-efl-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatters voted against Premier League Academy sides playing in the EFL Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/luton_fc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-440 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/luton_fc-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"luton_fc\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/luton_fc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/luton_fc.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Luton Town chief executive Gary Sweet has confirmed the club voted against plans for Premier League academy sides to feature in the EFL Trophy next season.<\/p>\n<p>At the EFL\u2019s annual conference and AGM held in Portugal this week, the Sky Bet EFL clubs agreed to pilot a scheme to include category 1 Premier League academy\/Under-21 sides in the tournament. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutontoday.co.uk\/sport\/luton-town\/luton-town-news\/hatters-voted-against-premier-league-academy-sides-playing-in-the-efl-trophy-1-7426193#ixzz4BCrBGI52\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town chief executive Gary Sweet has confirmed the club voted against plans for Premier League academy sides to feature in the EFL Trophy next season. At the EFL\u2019s annual conference and AGM held in Portugal this week, the Sky Bet EFL clubs agreed to pilot a scheme to include category 1 Premier League academy\/Under-21 sides in the tournament. Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[61,19,160,159,5],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-article","tag-football","tag-luton-football","tag-luton-town-fc","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}