{"id":196584,"date":"2025-12-17T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196584\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:09:06","slug":"ethan-mcleod-macclesfield-forward-dies-in-car-accident-on-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/196584\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan McLeod: Macclesfield forward dies in car accident on M1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a youngster, McLeod spent 10 years at Wolverhampton Wanderers&#8217; academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played for the club&#8217;s under-21s in the EFL Trophy but never made an appearance for the first team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Birmingham-born player had a loan spell with Alvechurch in the Southern League, before he had short periods with Rushall Olympic and Stourbridge after leaving Molineux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He arrived at Macclesfield in the summer, where he successfully came through a trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McLeod played five times for the Silkmen, most recently on 10 December, where he scored his second goal for them in a 1-1 draw with Kings Lynn Town.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a youngster, McLeod spent 10 years at Wolverhampton Wanderers&#8217; academy. He played for the club&#8217;s under-21s in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-196584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}