{"id":61451,"date":"2026-09-25T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/i-was-living-out-my-dream-career-in-football-tumours-mean-i-need-to-leave\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:05:10","slug":"i-was-living-out-my-dream-career-in-football-tumours-mean-i-need-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/i-was-living-out-my-dream-career-in-football-tumours-mean-i-need-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was living out my dream career in football \u2013 tumours mean I need to leave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Warning: This story contains discussion of suicide and information some readers may find distressing<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former assistant referee Dan Robathan ran the line at the FA Cup final between Crystal Palace and Manchester City in 2025. Just one year later he talked to BBC Newsbeat about losing his career after doctors found benign tumours in his spine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62kd2r65l1o\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">READ MORE: &#8216;I was living out my dream career in football \u2013 tumours mean I need to leave&#8217;<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/videos\/cjqlwx09v544o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: This story contains discussion of suicide and information some readers may find distressing Former assistant referee Dan Robathan ran the line at the FA Cup final between Crystal Palace and Manchester City in 2025. Just one year later he talked to BBC Newsbeat about losing his career after doctors found benign tumours in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4699,4607,403,2017,642,6377],"class_list":["post-61451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-career","tag-dream","tag-football","tag-leave","tag-living","tag-tumours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61453,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61451\/revisions\/61453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}