{"id":656809,"date":"2026-06-25T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:14:08","slug":"bradford-league-club-banned-until-2028-from-cup-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656809\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford League club banned until 2028 from cup competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Bradford Premier League club Methley have been removed from this season\u2019s Bentley Blast T20 Group A Cup in astonishing circumstances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A league panel has found the club guilty of disrepute due to the behaviour of their players in the first round at Bradford &amp; Bingley last Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Methley will also be barred from entering the competition in 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their place in the second round next Sunday will be taken by Ossett, the club who will host Finals Day on Sunday, July 19.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Methley were approached for comment by the Telegraph &amp; Argus, but have not yet provided us with a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Premier League club Methley have been removed from this season\u2019s Bentley Blast T20 Group A Cup in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656809","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=656809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}