{"id":134020,"date":"2025-05-26T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134020\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:31:11","slug":"irish-league-keith-bailie-how-tension-and-jeopardy-of-efl-promotion-play-offs-provide-blueprint-for-a-much-needed-rejig-closer-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134020\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League: Keith Bailie: How\u00a0tension and jeopardy\u00a0of EFL Promotion Play-Offs provide blueprint for a much-needed rejig closer to home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sunderland's Trai Hume falls to his knees as the full-time whistles sounds at Wembley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eddbce3c-8d43-4f0e-bcba-b972e9949475.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sunderland&#8217;s Trai Hume falls to his knees as the full-time whistles sounds at Wembley<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was a weekend of mixed emotions under the Wembley arches for Northern Ireland internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While Dan Ballard and Trai Hume celebrated promotion to the Premier League with Sunderland on Saturday, there was heartache for Jamie Donley and Ethan Galbraith on Sunday as Leyton Orient slipped to defeat in the League One Play-Off Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunderland&#8217;s Trai Hume falls to his knees as the full-time whistles sounds at Wembley It was a weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[58911,1144,58912,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-keith-bailie","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-playr-fit-championship","11":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114575801657515636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}