{"id":15681,"date":"2025-08-22T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15681\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:33:09","slug":"the-best-week-of-my-life-in-terms-of-josh-and-then-tonight-emotional-stephen-bradley-reflects-on-historic-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15681\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The best week of my life in terms of Josh and then tonight\u2019 \u2013 Emotional Stephen Bradley reflects on historic victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley celebrates after his side's victory in Santa Clara\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d5cedaa8-73a4-485f-8813-ea180c5698dd.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)\">Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley celebrates after his side&#8217;s victory in Santa Clara<\/p>\n<p>Daniel McDonnell in Ponta Delgada<\/p>\n<p>Today at 08:45<\/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)\">Stephen Bradley says that an away day win in the Azores for his Shamrock Rovers side capped the \u201cbest week of his life\u201d after his son Josh received the all-clear from cancer.<\/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)\">The Rovers boss stressed that his players still have work to do in Tallaght next Thursday if they are to become the first Irish team to qualify for European league phase football without availing of the champions route &#8211; but Bradley said that the trauma that he has experienced off the park across the last three years has taught him to enjoy the good days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley celebrates after his side&#8217;s victory in Santa Clara Daniel McDonnell in Ponta Delgada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,13537,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-15681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-shamrock-rovers","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681","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=15681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}