{"id":448888,"date":"2025-09-24T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448888\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:49:14","slug":"northern-ireland-football-fund-tom-elliotts-warning-over-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448888\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland Football Fund: Tom Elliott&#8217;s warning over legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ballinamallard United chief Tom Elliott says NI Football Fund cash needs to be released\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a2aad932-a621-40cb-b822-2897e3411c53.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)\">Ballinamallard United chief Tom Elliott says NI Football Fund cash needs to be released<\/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)\">Ballinamallard United Chairman Tom Elliott says he hopes clubs resist the temptation to take legal action in relation to the Northern Ireland Football Fund announcement to ensure the money will be released.<\/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 Department for Communities (DfC) has warned that any legal action taken by clubs could result in more delays to the Government programme which first promised money to the game back in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballinamallard United chief Tom Elliott says NI Football Fund cash needs to be released Ballinamallard United Chairman Tom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,58912,151050,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-448888","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-playr-fit-championship","11":"tag-tom-elliott","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115261484127608007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448888","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=448888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}