{"id":862,"date":"2018-03-09T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousenaija.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2018-03-09T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:41:50","slug":"referee-kills-player-football-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Referee Kills Player During Football Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A referee is facing murder charges after football players allegedly forced him to kill a member of the opposing team in southern Malawi, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The referee was overseeing a football match between two local teams, Billiat FC and Chilengo FC, in the town of Thyolo on Wednesday, when Chilengo FC players refused to accept the referee\u2019s decision to invalidate a goal, district police spokesman Benjamin Foster told dpa.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing scuffle, the referee fled to a nearby house, which the players lit to smoke him out, according to Foster.<\/p>\n<p>When the referee ran out of the burning building, the players forced him to smack a Billiat FC player repeatedly with a stick, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The player later died of his injuries in hospital, added Foster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe referee turned himself over \u2026 He is facing murder charges,\u201d he said. (dpa\/NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A referee is facing murder charges after football players allegedly forced him to kill a member of the opposing team in southern Malawi, police said Friday. The referee was overseeing a football match between two local teams, Billiat FC and Chilengo FC, in the town of Thyolo on Wednesday, when Chilengo FC players refused to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[742,741,739,47,740],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-football-match","tag-kill","tag-malawi","tag-player","tag-referee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}