{"id":20571,"date":"2024-01-18T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/20571\/wolves-fan-in-crowd-becomes\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:52:20","slug":"wolves-fan-in-crowd-becomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=20571","title":{"rendered":"Wolves fan in crowd becomes assistant ref in FA Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves fan in crowd becomes assistant ref in FA Cup match\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Wolves fan stepped forward through the crowd to act as fourth official when an assistant referee fell ill during his side&#39;s FA Cup match against Brentford on Tuesday and struggled to contain his joy when his team scored a late winner.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Bennett, a referee at youth level, said he volunteered to help when the assistant could not continue during extra time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ref asked me if I was going to do the fourth ref, and I said to myself, &#39;If you give me a quick crash course, I will,&#39;&#8221; Bennett told the Wolves Express podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for the next 30 minutes of my life I was officiating a replay of an FA Cup match; it was quite surreal, really crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett said he was &#8220;screaming&#8221; inside when Wolves scored from the penalty spot in extra time to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the match 3-2, setting up a fourth round meeting with West Bromwich Albion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The killer couldn&#39;t celebrate the third goal because I was going to the West Brom game and I couldn&#39;t celebrate the goal that got us there because I didn&#39;t know if I was allowed to do so or if I had done so. remain neutral,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves fan in crowd becomes assistant ref in FA Cup match\u060c A Wolves fan stepped forward through the crowd to act as fourth official when an assistant referee fell ill during his side&#39;s FA Cup match against Brentford on Tuesday and struggled to contain his joy when his team scored a late winner. Ross Bennett, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[366,9390,40,97,1203,3154,5007],"class_list":["post-20571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-assistant","tag-crowd","tag-cup","tag-fan","tag-match","tag-ref","tag-wolves"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20573,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions\/20573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}