{"id":7201,"date":"2025-08-18T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7201\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:48:14","slug":"the-key-talking-points-from-keith-andrews-premier-league-baptism-of-fire-with-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7201\/","title":{"rendered":"The key talking points from Keith Andrews\u2019 Premier League baptism of fire with Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brentford manager Keith Andrews (centre) and players applaud the fans after the final whistle following defeat in the Premier League match at the City Ground, Nottingham\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SOCCER Fo (89).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 (centre) and players applaud the fans after the final whistle following defeat in the Premier League match at the City Ground, Nottingham<\/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)\">Brentford\u2019s first game of the new Premier League season also marked Keith Andrews\u2019 maiden outing as a first-team manager, but it\u2019s safe to say it didn\u2019t go as well as the Dubliner had hoped.<\/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)\">Having been promoted from the club\u2019s set-piece coach to the hot seat on a three-year deal in June, it\u2019s some achievement for one\u2019s first managerial post to be in the biggest league in the world. But it proved to be a baptism of fire after a nightmare first-half showing from his side in the 3-1 defeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford manager Keith Andrews (centre) and players applaud the fans after the final whistle following defeat in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2726,18,19,17,795,2723,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-7201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brentford-fc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sean-oconnor","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","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=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}