{"id":260956,"date":"2025-07-13T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260956\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T07:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:05:30","slug":"sheffield-cathedral-to-hold-funeral-for-referee-uriah-rennie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260956\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Cathedral to hold funeral for referee Uriah Rennie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after his death, Rennie&#8217;s partner, Jayne, and his older brother, Glenroy, said he would be &#8220;so very sadly missed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, they said: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Jamaica, Rennie moved to Sheffield aged six and grew up in the Wybourn area of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also a magistrate for the city, a role he took up in 1996, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20x07ql1n7o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appointed as chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking after his death, Rennie&#8217;s partner, Jayne, and his older brother, Glenroy, said he would be &#8220;so very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260956","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\/114844659090697571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260956","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=260956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}