{"id":51754,"date":"2024-10-01T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-michael-oliver-not-handed-refereeing-duty-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:04:34","slug":"epl-michael-oliver-not-handed-refereeing-duty-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-michael-oliver-not-handed-refereeing-duty-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Michael Oliver not handed refereeing duty this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Premier League\u2019s confirmed line-up of officials for this weekend\u2019s games, reveals that Michael Oliver will not be refereeing any fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver, instead, will be performing VAR duties.<\/p>\n<p>He was in charge of Monday night\u2019s game between Bournemouth and Southampton, which ended in a 3-1 win for the Cherries.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, however, he will be the VAR for Brentford\u2019s clash with Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a fortnight ago, Oliver found himself in charge of a heated encounter between Manchester City and Arsenal which ended 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>He sent off Leandro Trossard with his second yellow coming after he delayed the restart \u2013 something the PGMOL are keen to crack down on this season.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Michael Oliver not handed refereeing duty this weekend<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League\u2019s confirmed line-up of officials for this weekend\u2019s games, reveals that Michael Oliver will not be refereeing any&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,12107,15,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-michael-oliver","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}