{"id":591147,"date":"2025-11-24T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:15:18","slug":"northern-ireland-football-tanya-oxtobys-reign-was-neither-a-triumph-nor-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/591147\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Tanya Oxtoby\u2019s reign was neither a triumph nor disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland Women are looking for a new boss after Tanya Oxtoby left to take charge at Newcastle United\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2c730c1b-1f50-4040-a126-fcef0062272e.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 Women are looking for a new boss after Tanya Oxtoby left to take charge at Newcastle United<\/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)\">From the moment Tanya Oxtoby landed in Belfast, she divided opinion.<\/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)\">For some, she was the dynamic modern face of women\u2019s football. Others were left cold by her coaching school lingo. Northern Irish football has an inherent mistrust of outsiders, as Oxtoby soon discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland Women are looking for a new boss after Tanya Oxtoby left to take charge at Newcastle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[58911,1144,8538,8542,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-keith-bailie","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-south-belfast-sport","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115605807955309693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591147","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=591147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}