{"id":512357,"date":"2025-10-19T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512357\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:12:18","slug":"northern-ireland-football-germany-loss-frustrating-for-all-after-referee-display-says-liam-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512357\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Germany loss frustrating for all after referee display, says Liam Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland should be rightfully aggrieved by the referee's performance against Germany\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/04e8cf5f-6818-481a-970d-2438515e732c.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 should be rightfully aggrieved by the referee&#8217;s performance against Germany<\/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)\">Week in, week out, I watch some managers struggle to explain or justify a poor performance or result and on some occasions, they\u2019ll even point the finger at the referee as they desperately seek to shift the blame.<\/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 generally always try to stick up for the officials because I appreciate it\u2019s a really difficult job, especially with the antics of the cheats and phonies who are everywhere in the modern game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland should be rightfully aggrieved by the referee&#8217;s performance against Germany Week in, week out, I watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29314,1144,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-512357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-liam-beckett","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115401952758570814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512357","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=512357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}