{"id":402022,"date":"2025-09-06T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402022\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:05:12","slug":"northern-irelands-win-over-england-20-years-on-looking-back-at-famous-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402022\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s win over England 20 years on: Looking back at famous night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland players and staff celebrate their 2005 win over England\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/189285 (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)\">Northern Ireland players and staff celebrate their 2005 win over England<\/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 one of the most memorable and important nights in the history of Northern Ireland football \u2014 and remains a cherished memory 20 years on. September 7, 2005 was the day when England\u2019s multi-millionaires were humbled and embarrassed by a group of spirited journeymen.<\/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)\">Forward James Quinn put full-back Ashley Cole on the ground early on and the rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland players and staff celebrate their 2005 win over England It was one of the most memorable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,8544,4884,8543,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-graham-luney","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-national-stadium-at-windsor-park","13":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156086224956224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402022","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=402022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}