{"id":78478,"date":"2022-10-05T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=78478"},"modified":"2022-10-05T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T08:26:30","slug":"wolves-fan-to-walk-125-miles-from-molineux-to-stamford-bridge-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/wolves-fan-to-walk-125-miles-from-molineux-to-stamford-bridge-for-charity","title":{"rendered":"Wolves fan to walk 125 miles from Molineux to Stamford Bridge for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football fan who has raised more than &#163;180,000 for charity will walk 125 miles from Wolverhampton to west London to raise money for dementia care. Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter Manny Singh Kang, 49, will set off from Molineux Stadium on Thursday and will walk for around 50 hours, over two and a half days, to arrive in time for kick-off at Chelsea&#8217;s Stamford Bridge stadium on Saturday. The father-of-three began fundraising in 2017 and has raised &#163;186,865 for charities including Dementia UK, Wolves Foundation, Birmingham Children&#8217;s Hospital and the Crisis homeless charity. Mr Singh Kang, who is a regional volunteer ambassador for Dementia UK, said his upcoming challenge is &#8220;absolutely bonkers&#8221; but added the support he has received from fellow fans will help him make it to kick-off. He told the PA news agency: &#8220;Wolves fans are amazing and I don&#8217;t do this for praise or rewards, I just want to try and give something back. &#8220;Every time I do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A football fan who has raised more than &#163;180,000 for charity will walk 125 miles from Wolverhampton to west London to raise money for dementia care.Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter Manny Singh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140,101],"tags":[80,376,453,138,55,102],"class_list":["post-78478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer","category-world","tag-advocacy","tag-charities","tag-dementia","tag-soccer","tag-society","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}