{"id":150008,"date":"2025-06-01T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150008\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T17:36:20","slug":"northern-ireland-football-kyle-lafferty-opened-up-on-his-regrets-amid-chat-about-his-career-i-admire-his-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150008\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Kyle Lafferty opened up on\u00a0his regrets amid chat about his career&#8230; I admire his honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyle Lafferty scored 20 goals for Northern Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Liam_Beckett.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)\">Kyle Lafferty scored 20 goals for Northern Ireland<\/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)\">Ten years ago, it was Keith Gillespie and I who had the pleasure of being guest speakers at Markethill Swifts\u2019 25th Anniversary Dinner.<\/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)\">A decade on, I was joined by Kyle Lafferty at the Swifts\u2019 35-year bash at the Bannville Hotel in Banbridge \u2014 and, believe me, the big former Northern Ireland striker was in top form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Lafferty scored 20 goals for Northern Ireland Ten years ago, it was Keith Gillespie and I who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29314,1144,8538,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-150008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-liam-beckett","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609323325884059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150008","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=150008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}