{"id":181362,"date":"2025-10-06T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181362\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:46:27","slug":"blackpool-fc-fans-applause-over-death-of-fan-sued-by-ex-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181362\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool FC fans&#8217; applause over death of fan sued by ex-owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans of clubs ranging from Liverpool to Middlesbrough, as well as non-league teams contributed to a fund to help Mr Knight&#8217;s legal costs, which was backed by celebrities like Countdown star Rachel Riley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Oystons sued fans who posted complaints online about the way they ran the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club chairman Karl Oyston was later fined \u00a340,000 by the FA for sending abusive texts to a fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Fielding, another of the fans sued by the Oystons during the boycott campaign against their ownership said: &#8220;Unfortunately, Frank never recovered from the stresses that were put upon him during that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Mr Knight was &#8220;a true Blackpool fan willing to put his neck on the line in taking the Oystons to task over the West Ham ticket debacle with the Football Ombudsman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club later apologised to fans over a ticketing mix-up which saw scores of West Ham fans sitting among Blackpool supporters in the 2012 Championship play-off final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of clubs ranging from Liverpool to Middlesbrough, as well as non-league teams contributed to a fund to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-181362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}