{"id":787162,"date":"2026-09-30T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:42:11","slug":"hundreds-attend-controversial-mulbarton-v-woodford-fa-cup-replay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787162\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds attend controversial Mulbarton v Woodford FA Cup replay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking before the game, Danny Self, joint first team manager at Mulbarton, said: &#8220;There&#8217;s all the emotions, you ask questions and you&#8217;re frustrated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Then you ask can we appeal this and you&#8217;re told you can&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whether we agree or disagree, we are where we are and we&#8217;ve just got to prepare for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Robathan, a retired Premier League and FIFA referee, defended the original matchday official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;There&#8217;s a misconception that when we make a decision, that we don&#8217;t care which is so far from the truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It hits you quite personally and you don&#8217;t want to have a negative effect on a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But you&#8217;re trying to process all that at once and I can only assume he&#8217;s got confused with the law in that moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The village club, around six miles (10km) south of Norwich, has risen through local leagues in recent years and is competing at step four of the non-league pyramid for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tie against Gloucester in the next round is scheduled for the weekend of Saturday 3 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester play at step three of non-league, in Southern League Premier Division South. The winner will claim \u00a35,625 in winnings and the losers \u00a31,875.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite losing tonight&#8217;s tie, Woodford also collect \u00a31,125 from the prize fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking before the game, Danny Self, joint first team manager at Mulbarton, said: &#8220;There&#8217;s all the emotions, you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787162","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\/787162","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=787162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}