{"id":49317,"date":"2016-05-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/49317\/sundowns-fan-celebrates-psl-title\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:04:53","slug":"sundowns-fan-celebrates-psl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/27\/sundowns-fan-celebrates-psl-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundowns fan celebrates PSL title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piet Mahlangu, well known local soccer fanatic, paraded through town on Saturday afternoon in his custom sprayed yellow and blue Sundowns car just moments after the Brazilians were given the PSL title.<\/p>\n<p>Pitso Mosimane\u2019s men claimed two records by closing the season with victory &#8211; the highest points total of 71 (for a 16-team PSL season) and a lead of 14 points at the end of the season over second-placed Bidvest Wits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a Sundowns supporter all my life and I\u2019m absolutely ecstatic that we\u2019re the champions!\u201d said Mahlangu.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been to dozens of games at their home ground at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium in Pretoria this season and praised the likes of Surprise Moriri, Khami Billiet and Hlompho Kekana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great season and what a pleasure to see the boys do so well. Sundowns forever!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mahlangu added that his car is for sale &#8211; but only to Sundowns owner, Patrice Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he likes it, he can buy it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A die-hard Mamelodi Sundowns supporter celebrated being crowned Absa Premier Soccer League Champions over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}