{"id":309856,"date":"2025-11-26T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:49:09","slug":"football-club-president-dies-after-falling-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309856\/","title":{"rendered":"Football club president dies after falling ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Halesowen Town Football Club has died after falling ill at a match.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Brookes attended the game against Stratford Town FC on Tuesday night where he fell sick and did not recover despite medical efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the club said: &#8221; Everyone who knew him would know that if he had chosen a way to go, it would have been watching his beloved Yeltz and a quick passing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with Karen and the family and all their friends at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow BBC Birmingham on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjf1dh?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BirminghamBBC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcmtd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcbirmingham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated internet links<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764157748_137_\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president of Halesowen Town Football Club has died after falling ill at a match. Colin Brookes attended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,175835,596,175834,85,175836],"class_list":["post-309856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-colin-brookes","tag-football","tag-halesowen-town-football-club","tag-sports","tag-stratford-town-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}