{"id":53568,"date":"2025-09-09T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53568\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:14:10","slug":"shambolic-irelands-world-cup-hopes-in-tatters-following-embarrassing-defeat-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53568\/","title":{"rendered":"Shambolic Ireland\u2019s World Cup hopes in tatters following embarrassing defeat in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Armenia 2 Ireland 1\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, with Killian Phillips, left, and Mikey Johnston after Ireland's defeat in Yerevan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3234295.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)\">Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, with Killian Phillips, left, and Mikey Johnston after Ireland&#8217;s defeat in Yerevan<\/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 least now we can stop the pretending. Stop talking about fans putting money away for a summer in north America at next year\u2019s World Cup finals. Cease with the promises of being organised and resilient, where the current crop of Ireland players can stop talking about becoming heroes and writing their own chapters in the history books.<\/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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s side are going nowhere, certainly not to a World Cup as this 2-1 loss away to Armenia \u2013 a side not even ranked in the top 100 in the world \u2013 is a new low in the modern era of this team. Ignore the bravado about Ireland pushing Portugal hard and competing with Hungary for second place, Ireland are now in a race to the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 Armenia 2 Ireland 1 Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, with Killian Phillips, left, and Mikey Johnston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,18142,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-53568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-fai","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53568","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=53568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}