{"id":2976,"date":"2013-02-14T20:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2013-02-14T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:31:33","slug":"manchester-city-stars-voice-east-manchester-line-on-matchdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City stars voice East Manchester Line on matchdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers travelling to the Etihad Stadium on matchdays will be greeted by special next\u00a0stop announcements as Manchester City stars will feature on the PA system announcing the stops! Three players and manager Roberto Mancini have kindly agreed to record the messages which will make their debut on Sunday 17<sup>th <\/sup>February when Manchester City entertain Leeds United in the FA Cup \u2013 the first time that a football match will be taking place at the Etihad since the East Manchester Line opened this week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Four stops on the East Manchester Line are to be voiced by the stars from Manchester City<br \/>\nwith Vincent Kompany calling Piccadilly, Joe Hart New Islington, James Milner Holt Town and Roberto Mancini Etihad Campus (which has direct pedestrian access to the Stadium).<\/p>\n<p>Steve Sayer, Director of Operations for the current Premiership champions Manchester City, said: \u201cThe new Metrolink service will greatly improve access to the Etihad Stadium for supporters on match days and other visitors to the Etihad Campus during the week. It\u2019s a nice touch for the fans that some of our star players and manager will announce on the way to our home stadium to get everyone in the mood for the match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers travelling to the Etihad Stadium on matchdays will be greeted by special next\u00a0stop announcements as Manchester City stars will feature on the PA system announcing the stops! Three players and manager Roberto Mancini have kindly agreed to record the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}