{"id":506943,"date":"2026-04-01T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:55:08","slug":"birmingham-city-to-pay-tribute-to-fan-who-died-after-away-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506943\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City to pay tribute to fan who died after away match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham City representatives will lay a wreath in Pride Park on Thursday, and on Friday the club will lay one at its home game against Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club said it would also support a fan-led initiative to hold a minute&#8217;s applause in the 18th minute of Friday&#8217;s game to celebrate Pike&#8217;s life, with a photo on the big screens displaying an image chosen by his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club added that it was &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; to hear of Pike&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would like to thank all Bluenoses, everyone at Derby County, and football fans across the country for the compassion, solidarity, and support shown to the Pike family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is this spirit that makes the football community so special.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City representatives will lay a wreath in Pride Park on Thursday, and on Friday the club will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-506943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506943","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=506943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}