{"id":589476,"date":"2025-11-23T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:18:21","slug":"northern-ireland-football-michael-oneill-has-what-it-takes-to-inspire-ni-to-shock-world-cup-play-off-triumph-over-italy-says-ruaidhri-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589476\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Michael O&#8217;Neill has what it takes to inspire NI to\u00a0shock World Cup Play-Off triumph over Italy, says Ruaidhri Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill will aim to mastermind a huge victory over Italy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tyImages-1249536565.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 boss Michael O&#8217;Neill will aim to mastermind a huge victory over Italy<\/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)\">Ruaidhri Higgins says he won\u2019t be surprised if Michael O\u2019Neill masterminds a World Cup miracle and lands a knock-out blow on big hitters Italy.<\/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)\">Coleraine boss Higgins keeps a close eye on the international game and can feel the pride at the north west club as two of their former heroes, Brad Lyons and Patrick Kelly, represented their country against Luxembourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland boss Michael O&#8217;Neill will aim to mastermind a huge victory over Italy Ruaidhri Higgins says he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,8538,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-589476","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-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115601101834381130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589476","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=589476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}