{"id":35965,"date":"2025-04-20T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35965\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:59:10","slug":"irish-league-liam-beckett-says-bosses-need-to-stop-looking-to-man-citys-pep-guardiola-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35965\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League: Liam Beckett says bosses need to stop looking to Man City&#8217;s Pep Guardiola for inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Liam_Beckett (2).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)\">Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola<\/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)\">I don\u2019t want to sound like a cracked record, but when several people \u2014 including two former IFA Presidents \u2014 contacted me last weekend supporting my views on the way football is heading, it became clear to me that we need to act immediately if we are to stop the rot.<\/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)\">I have always felt that the Irish League provided us all with a great, honest to goodness solace and a type of safety net for football fans who have become somewhat disillusioned with the entertainment value being dished up by wall-to-wall coverage of the English game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola I don\u2019t want to sound like a cracked record, but when several people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,1037,101,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-35965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-pep-guardiola","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965","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=35965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}