{"id":532667,"date":"2025-10-28T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:10:22","slug":"keith-bailie-kyle-laffertys-curry-complaint-has-opened-up-a-wider-debate-about-irish-league-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532667\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Bailie: Kyle Lafferty\u2019s curry complaint has opened up a\u00a0wider debate about Irish League standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyle Lafferty has hit out at how the south Belfast club was run when he played for them\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/90c5746e-71ef-4a23-a3cd-c2917ce28961.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)\">Kyle Lafferty has hit out at how the south Belfast club was run when he played for them<\/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)\">You must expect the unexpected when reporting on Irish League football.<\/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)\">My bingo card for the 2025\/26 season certainly didn\u2019t include Kyle Lafferty slagging off the professional standards at Linfield on a Scottish football podcast, with the Mad Hatter caf\u00e9 catching strays in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Lafferty has hit out at how the south Belfast club was run when he played for them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29309,1144,8538,8541,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-532667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-linfield-fc","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115450310340311406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532667","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=532667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}