{"id":210764,"date":"2025-12-02T04:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210764\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:12:17","slug":"aidan-fitzmaurice-numbers-struggle-to-add-up-for-irish-players-in-england-but-mason-melia-offers-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210764\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fitzmaurice: Numbers struggle to add up for Irish players in England but Mason Melia offers hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mason Melia is joining Tottenham from St Patrick's Athletic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7f262cd5-c30d-47a5-8101-893bc0c0f81c.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)\">Mason Melia is joining Tottenham from St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic<\/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)\">After alienating sections of the Tottenham support over the weekend and seeing his odds shorten in the sack race, Tottenham boss Thomas Frank has enough in his in-tray to concern himself with side issues. <\/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)\">But one he faces if he remains in his position in early 2026, is how to handle an incoming talent, as Irish striker Mason Melia will be formally at Spurs player next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Melia is joining Tottenham from St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic After alienating sections of the Tottenham support over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2722,18,19,17,795,132,3613],"class_list":{"0":"post-210764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tottenham-hotspur"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115648027522407396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210764","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=210764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}