{"id":154943,"date":"2025-10-31T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154943\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:41:09","slug":"hair-flair-and-long-throw-ins-the-extraordinary-rise-of-keith-andrews-at-the-brentford-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154943\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair, flair and long throw-ins \u2013 the extraordinary rise of Keith Andrews at the Brentford helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brentford manager Keith Andrews applauds the fans after the final whistle in Tuesday's Carabao Cup victory over Grimsby Town. Photo: Bradley Collyer\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SOCCER Gr (19) (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Brentford manager Keith Andrews applauds the fans after the final whistle in Tuesday&#8217;s Carabao Cup victory over Grimsby Town. Photo: Bradley Collyer\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One afternoon a few years back, we found ourselves, via a mutual acquaintance, in a friendly fourball with Keith Andrews in Portmarnock (no, not the real one).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the time, this was neither the egregious name drop nor the claim to fame it presumably comes across as. Andrews had had a slot on Newstalk a couple of years previous. He moved in the same circles as some Irish media types back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford manager Keith Andrews applauds the fans after the final whistle in Tuesday&#8217;s Carabao Cup victory over Grimsby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2221,2726,2052,31891,18,19,17,1534,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-154943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-brentford-fc","10":"tag-chelsea","11":"tag-conor-mckeon","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-liverpool-football-club","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115467890650798429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}