{"id":258451,"date":"2025-07-12T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258451\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:25:09","slug":"sheffield-cathedral-to-hold-funeral-for-referee-uriah-rennie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258451\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Cathedral to hold funeral for referee Uriah Rennie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The funeral of football referee Uriah Rennie is to be held at Sheffield Cathedral on Monday. <\/p>\n

Rennie, the Premier League’s first black referee, died aged 65 on 7 June after “battling a recent cancer diagnosis”, his family said.<\/p>\n

The cathedral said the funeral would begin at 11:00 BST, with a public viewing area and large screen available outside.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said: “All are welcome to come to pay their respects.”<\/p>\n

Speaking after his death, Rennie’s partner, Jayne, and his older brother, Glenroy, said he would be “so very sadly missed”.<\/p>\n

In a statement, they said: “Our family have appreciated all the support from the nursing teams from Northern General and Weston Park Hospitals, plus close family and friends during the past few weeks at such a difficult time.”<\/p>\n

Born in Jamaica, Rennie moved to Sheffield aged six and grew up in the Wybourn area of the city.<\/p>\n

He became a match official in 1994 and oversaw more than 300 games, including 175 in the Premier League. He retired from football in 2008.<\/p>\n

He was also a magistrate for the city, a role he took up in 1996, and was appointed as chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral of football referee Uriah Rennie is to be held at Sheffield Cathedral on Monday. Rennie, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114839311720027025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}