{"id":55231,"date":"2025-04-27T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55231\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T16:53:13","slug":"irish-league-liam-beckett-coleraine-irish-cup-triumph-brings-back-many-special-memories-50-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55231\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish League: Liam Beckett: Coleraine Irish Cup triumph brings back many special memories 50 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"I always enjoy wandering down memory lane... especially to these kind of days!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/d0892f4a-7727-4f15-8104-730c01cdd541.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)\">I always enjoy wandering down memory lane&#8230; especially to these kind of days!<\/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)\">On Saturday, Coleraine\u2019s Irish Cup-winning team of 1975 were very kindly welcomed back to The Showgrounds for a celebratory dinner to mark 50 years since our trophy triumph.<\/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 was lucky enough to win a couple of Irish Cups with the Bannsiders, with the first of those coming in \u201875. As my mind clicked into gear on Saturday, I suddenly recalled who had played in that team and, believe me, that was a bloody good side \u2013 in fact, that particular era was probably the best Coleraine side I ever featured in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I always enjoy wandering down memory lane&#8230; especially to these kind of days! On Saturday, Coleraine\u2019s Irish Cup-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29312,8539,29307,29308,29310,12421,29314,29309,8540,1144,29311,8542,8541,29313,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-55231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-sport","9":"tag-cliftonville-fc","10":"tag-coleraine-fc","11":"tag-derry-sport","12":"tag-drogheda-united-fc","13":"tag-dungannon-swifts","14":"tag-liam-beckett","15":"tag-linfield-fc","16":"tag-north-belfast-sport","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-portadown-fc","19":"tag-south-belfast-sport","20":"tag-sports-direct-premiership","21":"tag-tyrone-sport","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114410973075334385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55231","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=55231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}