{"id":416998,"date":"2025-09-11T23:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416998\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:27:16","slug":"ni-football-fund-delight-and-despair-for-clubs-seeking-stadium-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416998\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Football Fund: Delight and despair for clubs seeking stadium cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sports minister Gordon Lyons knows there is still much more to be done when it comes to the NI Football Fund\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6c12f989-f592-4158-98b3-7d899944534a.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)\">Sports minister Gordon Lyons knows there is still much more to be done when it comes to the NI Football Fund<\/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)\">One by one, Gordon Lyons read out the names of the clubs. There would be 20 in total with Cliftonville and Glentoran the headliners on the list but it was those who didn\u2019t make the cut that caused the biggest stir.<\/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)\">No Derry City. No Coleraine. No Portadown. No Crusaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports minister Gordon Lyons knows there is still much more to be done when it comes to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8099,42497,1144,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-derry-city","9":"tag-gordon-lyons","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115188258905182420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416998","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=416998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}