{"id":58,"date":"2016-08-11T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:59:24","slug":"jay-emmanuel-thomas-six-goals-two-wins-and-one-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2016\/08\/11\/jay-emmanuel-thomas-six-goals-two-wins-and-one-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Emmanuel-Thomas: six goals, two wins and one player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Emmanuel-Thomas<\/strong>\u2019 transfer to <strong>Gillingham<\/strong> on Friday seems to have\u00a0taken the <strong>League One<\/strong> club to a new level. \u00a0The big striker was instrumental in the team\u2019s two comeback victories against <strong>Southend United<\/strong> at Roots Hall as the Gills made a blinding start to the season. So much so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/sport\/14673074.Brown__Emmanuel_Thomas_was_the_difference_between_the_two_teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Brown hailed Gillingham as title contenders<\/a> should he remain at the club beyond January.<\/p>\n<h1>Jay Emmanuel-Thomas: six goals, two wins and one player<\/h1>\n<h4><strong>Where do Gillingham stand?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It is fair to say that with the season approaching, there was little optimism amongst the fans. John Egan had left the club to join Brentford and a number of severe injuries had rocked <strong>Justin Edinburgh<\/strong>\u2018s team. Not even <strong>Bradley Dack<\/strong>\u2019s presence could enliven fans, with many predicting a severe hangover following last season\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n<h4>Power and Pace<\/h4>\n<p>The two spectacular comebacks (both 3-1 victories) in the space of four days, however, have rejuvenated spirits. Emmanuel-Thomas excelled in both games; scored three goals; made one assist; and terrified the Southend defence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find the rest of this article at our previous site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_self\">Last word on sports<\/a>. Keep it locked here on <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Football<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest analysis, news, opinion and more about the beatiful game as we expand and bring you a dedicated, football only site. It is all the best of what you expect from last word, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel-Thomas\u2019 transfer to Gillingham on Friday seems to have\u00a0taken the League One club to a new level. \u00a0The big striker was instrumental in the team\u2019s two comeback victories against Southend United at Roots Hall as the Gills made a blinding start to the season. So much so that Phil Brown hailed Gillingham as title contenders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[168,47],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-efl","tag-gillingham"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}