{"id":158464,"date":"2025-06-04T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158464\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T21:02:11","slug":"premier-league-sunderlands-trai-hume-and-daniel-ballard-hoping-to-kick-on-with-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158464\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Sunderland&#8217;s Trai Hume and Daniel Ballard hoping to kick on with Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland's Daniel Ballard and Trai Hume toast Sunderland\u2019s promotion to the Premier League\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b03215dd-7f0c-423a-a666-d9dced8038da.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)\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s Daniel Ballard and Trai Hume toast Sunderland\u2019s promotion to the Premier League<\/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)\">Sunderland duo Trai Hume and Daniel Ballard say they are bursting with pride and excitement after securing promotion to the Premier League.<\/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)\">The Black Cats heroes have doubled Northern Ireland\u2019s representation in England\u2019s elite league and now the top flight new boys are banking on their higher status to inject greater strength into Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s young side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s Daniel Ballard and Trai Hume toast Sunderland\u2019s promotion to the Premier League Sunderland duo Trai Hume&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,8538,8900,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-158464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-graham-luney","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-sunderland-afc","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114627120116995002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158464","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=158464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}