{"id":652573,"date":"2026-10-20T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:28:14","slug":"fan-drives-onto-south-african-football-pitch-and-chases-referee-in-shocking-2020-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652573\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan drives onto South African football pitch and chases referee in shocking 2020 incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">A car suddenly raced onto a football field in South Africa, sending players and officials scrambling for safety. The driver appeared to chase the referee before turning toward the visiting team\u2019s bench.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The footage is circulating again, but the incident happened in February 2020 during a match between Luka Ball Controllers and Polokwane City Rovers in the ABC Motsepe League. Contemporary reports said City Rovers were leading 2-1 when the driver entered the field.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The referee and players escaped the vehicle. Police were asked to investigate, but reports at the time did not identify the driver or confirm an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car suddenly raced onto a football field in South Africa, sending players and officials scrambling for safety.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-652573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}